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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-15693

In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library httpClient is vulnerable to a CR-LF injection in the target URL. An injection is possible if the attacker controls any part of the URL provided in a call (such as httpClient.get or httpClient.post), the User-Agent header value, or custom HTTP header names or values.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:54 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-15693

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Aug 2020, 19:15 UTC

In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library httpClient is vulnerable to a CR-LF injection in the target URL. An injection is possible if the attacker controls any part of the URL provided in a call (such as httpClient.get or httpClient.post), the User-Agent header value, or custom HTTP header names or values.

osv:CVE-2020-15693
Complete source record
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