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GHSA-XRR9-RH8P-433V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2020-01-27 19:28 – Updated: 2021-01-08 20:32

Summary

Request smuggling is possible when both chunked TE and content length specified

Details

Impact

Request smuggling is possible when running behind a proxy that doesn't handle Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding properly or doesn't handle alone \n as a headers separator.

Patches

https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/pull/1547

Workarounds

None except migrating to a better proxy.

References

https://portswigger.net/web-security/request-smuggling https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-9.5

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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  "modified": "2021-01-08T20:32:37Z",
  "published": "2020-01-27T19:28:40Z",
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CVE-2020-5207 (GCVE-0-2020-5207)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-27 19:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22

Title

Request smuggling is possible in Ktor when both chunked TE and content length specified

Summary

In Ktor before 1.3.0, request smuggling is possible when running behind a proxy that doesn't handle Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding properly or doesn't handle \n as a headers separator.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7637 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/security/advisorie…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/pull/1547	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Ktor.io	Ktor	Affected: < 1.3.0

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