Mageia: 2020-0423 Moderate: Ruby WEBrick HTTP Request Smuggling
mageia
November 13, 2020
A potential HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in WEBrick was reported
Summary
A potential HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in WEBrick was reported.
WEBrick was too tolerant against an invalid Transfer-Encoding header. This may
lead to inconsistent interpretation between WEBrick and some HTTP proxy
servers, which may allow the attacker to “smuggle” a request (CVE-2020-25613).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27401
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/09/29/http-request-smuggling-cve-2020-25613/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25613
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/ruby-2.5.8-22.mga7
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Publication date: 13 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0423.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-25613
Topics Covered
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