MSRC_CVE-2019-20372

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2020-01-02 00:00 - Updated: 2020-09-25 00:00
Summary
NGINX before 1.17.7 with certain error_page configurations allows HTTP request smuggling as demonstrated by the ability of an attacker to read unauthorized web pages in environments where NGINX is being fronted by a load balancer.

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