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CVE-2020-7659

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7659 describes a Request Smuggling vulnerability in the deprecated celluloid reel project (versions up to 0.6.1). This flaw allows attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks by sending duplicate Content-Length headers or by exploiting incorrect parsing of invalid Transfer-Encoding headers. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and could lead to high integrity impacts, though confidentiality and availability are not directly affected. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:celluloid:reel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0133 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-x3v4-pxvm-63j8high

HTTP Request Smuggling in reel

May 24, 2021

References

snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-RUBY-REEL-569135
Third Party Advisory