CVE-2024-6827 (GCVE-0-2024-6827)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-20 10:09 – Updated: 2025-10-15 12:50
VLAI
Title
HTTP Request Smuggling in benoitc/gunicorn
Summary
Gunicorn version 21.2.0 does not properly validate the value of the 'Transfer-Encoding' header as specified in the RFC standards, which leads to the default fallback method of 'Content-Length,' making it vulnerable to TE.CL request smuggling. This vulnerability can lead to cache poisoning, data exposure, session manipulation, SSRF, XSS, DoS, data integrity compromise, security bypass, information leakage, and business logic abuse.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-20 17:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests
Assigner
@huntr_ai CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 37 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
benoitc benoitc/gunicorn Affected: unspecified , ≤ latest (custom)
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