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CVE-2020-7671

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-444

Description

goliath through 1.0.6 allows request smuggling attacks where goliath is used as a backend and a frontend proxy also being vulnerable. 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.

Affected products

• goliath: through 1.0.6

References

• https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/issues/351%2C
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GOLIATH-569136
• https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/issues/351%2C
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GOLIATH-569136

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