Vulnerability · Published May 22, 2020 · Assigned by snyk
CVE-2020-7658
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in meinheld. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 47.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
meinheld prior to 1.0.2 is vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. HTTP pipelining issues and request smuggling attacks might be possible due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | meinheld | 1.0.2 | GHSA-63h2-9cc8-fc7m |
| PyPI | meinheld | 1.0.2 | PYSEC-2020-239 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/mopemope/meinheld/blob/master/CHANGES.rst%2C x_refsource_MISC
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-MEINHELD-569140 x_refsource_MISC