HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting tiny_http package, versions <0.8.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-TINYHTTP-573057
  • published16 Jun 2020
  • disclosed16 Jun 2020
  • creditSam Sanoop of Snyk Security Team

Introduced: 16 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-35884  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade tiny_http to version 0.8.0 or higher.

Overview

tiny_http is a Low level HTTP server library

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

It is possible conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks (CL:TE/TE:TE) by sending invalid Transfer Encoding headers. By manipulating the HTTP response the attacker could poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack, or obtain sensitive information from requests other than their own.

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