In short
- CVE-2020-7659 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting reel, reel (celluloid).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.3% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| reel RubyGems | ≤ 0.6.1
| No fix yet |
| 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.
NVD 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 TE:CL smuggling attacks. Note: This project is deprecated, and is not maintained any more.
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