Vulnerability · Published Jun 10, 2020 · Assigned by snyk
CVE-2020-7671
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in goliath. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 70% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 30.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
goliath through 1.0.6 allows request smuggling attacks where goliath is used as a backend and a frontend proxy also being vulnerable. 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 TE:CL smuggling attacks.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | goliath | no fix listed | GHSA-3892-2r52-p65m |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/issues/351%2C x_refsource_MISC
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GOLIATH-569136 x_refsource_MISC