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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-7671

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-7671

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jun 2020, 16:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2020-7671
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7671",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-7671",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-7671",
        "GHSA-3892-2r52-p65m",
        "SNYK-RUBY-GOLIATH-569136"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
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                }
              ],
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:goliath_project:goliath:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
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                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.0.6"
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          ],
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:24.214736956Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GOLIATH-569136",
        "https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/issues/351%2C"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385291,
  "published_at": "2020-06-10T16:15:10.587+00:00"
}