Security advisory
reel through 0.6.1 allows Request Smuggling attacks due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing. 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. Note: This project is deprecated, and is not maintained any more.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7659
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
reel through 0.6.1 allows Request Smuggling attacks due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing. 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. Note: This project is deprecated, and is not maintained any more.
osv:CVE-2020-7659
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.644937846Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430724,
"published_at": "2020-06-01T13:15:10.313+00:00"
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