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CVE-2020-25613 (webrick): Potential HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability in WEBrick

ADVISORIES

GEM

webrick

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 1.6.1

DESCRIPTION

WEBrick was too tolerant against an invalid Transfer-Encoding header. This may lead to inconsistent interpretation between WEBrick and some HTTP proxy servers, which may allow the attacker to "smuggle" a request. See CWE-444 in detail.