HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting goliath package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-GOLIATH-569136
  • published 3 Jun 2020
  • disclosed 3 Jun 2020
  • credit Sam Sanoop of Snyk Security Team

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for goliath.

Overview

goliath is an Async framework for writing API servers.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. HTTP pipelining issues and request smuggling attacks might be possible due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing.

It is possible to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks where goliath is used as part of a chain of backend servers due to insufficient Content-Length and Transfer Encoding parsing.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

7.5 high