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Red Hat JBossEAP: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2020-7238)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2020-7238)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/26/2020
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

Description

Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.. A flaw was found in Netty, where it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace. This flaw allows HTTP Request Smuggling.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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