High severity · published May 22, 2020
CVE-2020-11077
In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.5 and 3.12.6, a client could smuggle a request through a proxy, causing the proxy to send a response back to another unknown client
7.5
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.5 and 3.12.6, a client could smuggle a request through a proxy, causing the proxy to send a response back to another unknown client. If the proxy uses persistent connections and the client adds another request in via HTTP pipelining, the proxy may mistake it as the first request's body. Puma, however, would see it as two requests, and when processing the second request, send back a response that the proxy does not expect. If the proxy has reused the persistent connection to Puma to send another request for a different client, the second response from the first client will be sent to the second client. This is a similar but different vulnerability from CVE-2020-11076. The problem has been fixed in Puma 3.12.6 and Puma 4.3.5.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
PU
Puma · Puma
3.0.0 before 3.12.6; 4.0.0 before 4.3.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11077
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11077
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00034.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00038.html
Release Notes
https://github.com/puma/puma/blob/master/History.md#434435-and-31253126--2020-05-22
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-w64w-qqph-5gxm
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00009.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SKIY5H67GJIGJL6SMFWFLUQQQR3EMVPR/
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