What is CVE-2020-7659?

CVE-2020-7659 is a high-severity vulnerability in Celluloid Reel, classified under Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request/Response Smuggling). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-06-01.

How severe is CVE-2020-7659?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Celluloid Reel

CVE-2020-7659

reel through 0.6.1 allows Request Smuggling attacks due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing. It is possible to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks by sending the Content-Length header twice. Furthermore, invalid Transfer Encoding headers were found to be parsed as valid which could be leveraged for TE:CL smuggling attacks. Note: This project is deprecated, and is not maintained any more.

Vulnerability class: HTTP Request Smuggling

EPSS: 0.013 (68.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Celluloid Reel
N/a Reel — versions All versions including 0.6.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-444 — Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request/Response Smuggling)

References

report@snyk.io (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7659?: CVE-2020-7659 is a high-severity vulnerability in Celluloid Reel, classified under Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request/Response Smuggling). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-06-01.
How severe is CVE-2020-7659?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.