VDB
CVE-2020-7238
CVE-2020-7238
PUBLISHED
Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.
EPSS 1.50% · 81.5th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
1.50%
81.5th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | netty | 0, 1:4.0.34-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 1:4.0.34-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | netty | 1:3.2.6.Final-2, 0 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | netty-3.9 | 0, 3.9.0.Final-1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS | netty | 0, 1:4.1.7-4, 1:4.1.7-4ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://github.com/jdordonezn/CVE-2020-72381/issues/1 (nist-nvd)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html (circl)
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373044 (circl)
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406320 (circl)
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406321 (circl)
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406322 (circl)
- https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-angular-copy-redos (circl)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQWJLE5WE33WNMA54XSJIDXBRK2KL3XJ/ (circl)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDKFLKJ6VZKL52AFVW2OVZRMJWHMW55K/ (circl)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2023-26116 (circl-sighting)
…and 2 more exploits
Timeline
- Jan 27, 2020 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 19, 2021 CVE Updated
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7238 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1796225 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/jdordonezn/CVE-2020-72381/issues/1 third-party-advisory
- https://netty.io/news/ third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4600-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7238 third-party-advisory