GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433v

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433v

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/01/GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433v/GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433v.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433v

Aliases

CVE-2020-5207

Published

2020-01-27T19:28:40Z

Modified

2026-07-08T05:59:54Z

Severity

5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

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

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-444"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-01-27T19:28:00Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "LOW"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / io.ktor:ktor-client-cio

Package

Name: io.ktor:ktor-client-cio; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/io.ktor/ktor-client-cio

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.3.0

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0-rc

1.0.0

1.0.1

1.1.0

1.1.1

1.1.2

1.1.3

1.1.4

1.1.5

1.2.0-rc

1.2.0-rc2

1.2.0

1.2.1

1.2.2

1.2.3-rc

1.2.3

1.2.4

1.2.5

1.2.6

1.3.0-rc

1.3.0-rc2

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/01/GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433v/GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433v.json"

Maven / io.ktor:ktor-server-cio