Request smuggling via conflicting HTTP framing headers
Published Jun 10, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
HTTP request smuggling in Peter Ohler Agoo before 2.14.0 allows remote attackers to poison proxied requests via conflicting framing headers. The HTTP parser accepts duplicate Content-Length fields and malformed Transfer-Encoding syntax, causing a frontend proxy and Agoo to disagree about request boundaries. Exploitation requires Agoo to run behind a frontend proxy with compatible parsing behavior; GitHub withdrew its advisory after the maintainer disputed that the demonstrated behavior constituted a vulnerability.
Summary
What happened
HTTP request smuggling in Peter Ohler Agoo before 2.14.0 allows remote attackers to poison proxied requests via conflicting framing headers. The HTTP parser accepts duplicate Content-Length fields and malformed Transfer-Encoding syntax, causing a frontend proxy and Agoo to disagree about request boundaries. Exploitation requires Agoo to run behind a frontend proxy with compatible parsing behavior; GitHub withdrew its advisory after the maintainer disputed that the demonstrated behavior constituted a vulnerability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-7670
- Published
- Jun 10, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Peter Ohler
- Product
- Agoo
- Classifications
- CWE-444, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 10, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=versions prior to 2.14.0
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Public exploit references
- Agoo issue 88 request-smuggling demonstrationproof of concept · demonstrated
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