Critical
Security advisory
In Twisted Web through 19.10.0, there was an HTTP request splitting vulnerability. When presented with a content-length and a chunked encoding header, the content-length took precedence and the remainder of the request body was interpreted as a pipelined request.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10109
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Twisted Web through 19.10.0, there was an HTTP request splitting vulnerability. When presented with a content-length and a chunked encoding header, the content-length took precedence and the remainder of the request body was interpreted as a pipelined request.
osv:CVE-2020-10109
Complete source record
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