CVE-2020-5207 (GCVE-0-2020-5207)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-27 19:30
Modified
2024-08-04 08:22
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
Summary
In Ktor before 1.3.0, request smuggling is possible when running behind a proxy that doesn't handle Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding properly or doesn't handle \n as a headers separator.
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Impacted products
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Ktor.io Ktor Version: < 1.3.0
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