CVE-2020-10109 describes an HTTP request splitting vulnerability in Twisted Web versions up to 19.10.0, impacting products like Canonical, Debian, FedoraProject, and Twisted itself. This critical vulnerability, rated 9.8 CVSS, allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely manipulate HTTP requests by sending a crafted request that combines a content-length and a chunked encoding header, leading to the remainder of the request being interpreted as a pipelined request. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with over 10 mentions, indicating awareness despite a lack of media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 19.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:twisted:twisted:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
CVE-2020-10109
Jul 13, 2021HTTP Request Smuggling in Twisted
Mar 31, 2020python-twisted: HTTP request smuggling when presented with a Content-Length and a chunked Transfer-Encoding header
Mar 11, 2020In 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.
Mar 10, 2020