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CVE-2020-7611

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-444

Description

All versions of io.micronaut:micronaut-http-client before 1.2.11 and all versions from 1.3.0 before 1.3.2 are vulnerable to HTTP Request Header Injection due to not validating request headers passed to the client.

Affected products

• micronaut-projects micronaut-core: before 1.2.11; from 1.3.0 before 1.3.2 — fixed in 1.2.11, 1.3.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: micronaut-projects micronaut-core 1.2.11, 1.3.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/commit/9d1eff5c8df1d6cda1fe00ef046729b2a6abe7f1
• https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/security/advisories/GHSA-694p-xrhg-x3wm
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-IOMICRONAUT-561342
• https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/commit/9d1eff5c8df1d6cda1fe00ef046729b2a6abe7f1
• https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/security/advisories/GHSA-694p-xrhg-x3wm
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-IOMICRONAUT-561342

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