CVE-2020-5207 (GCVE-0-2020-5207)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-27 19:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
CWE
- CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
Assigner
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 |
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