High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7671
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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