vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-47220

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Sep 22, 2024
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the WEBrick toolkit through 1.8.1 for Ruby. It allows HTTP request smuggling by providing both a Content-Length header and a Transfer-Encoding header, e.g., "GET /admin HTTP/1.1\r\n" inside of a "POST /user HTTP/1.1\r\n" request. NOTE: the supplier's position is "Webrick should not be used in production."

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
NEW

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