GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-x3v4-pxvm-63j8 HTTP Request Smuggling in reel

HIGH Published 2021-05-24 Modified 2023-01-23 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-7659
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
reel
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-444
Reviewed
2021-05-14

Affected packages

• RubyGems reel: <= 0.6.1 (no fix yet)

Description

reel through 0.6.1 allows Request Smuggling attacks due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing. It is possible to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks by sending the Content-Length header twice. Furthermore, invalid Transfer Encoding headers were found to be parsed as valid which could be leveraged for TECL smuggling attacks. Note, This project is deprecated, and is not maintained any more.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-7659 reel through 0.6.1 allows Request Smuggling attacks due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness

References