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CVE-2020-26281GHSA-4VR9-8CJF-VF9CGHSA-C8RQ-CRXJ-MJ9MRUSTSEC-2020-0093

request smuggling in async-h1

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.3.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

async-h1 is an asynchronous HTTP/1.1 parser for Rust (crates.io). There is a request smuggling vulnerability in async-h1 before version 2.3.0. This vulnerability affects any webserver that uses async-h1 behind a reverse proxy, including all such Tide applications. If the server does not read the body of a request which is longer than some buffer length, async-h1 will attempt to read a subsequent request from the body content starting at that offset into the body. One way to exploit this vulnerability would be for an adversary to craft a request such that the body contains a request that would not be noticed by a reverse proxy, allowing it to forge forwarded/x-forwarded headers. If an application trusted the authenticity of these headers, it could be misled by the smuggled request. Another potential concern with this vulnerability is that if a reverse proxy is sending multiple http clients' requests along the same keep-alive connection, it would be possible for the smuggled request to specify a long content and capture another user's request in its body. This content could be captured in a post request to an endpoint that allows the content to be subsequently retrieved by the adversary. This has been addressed in async-h1 2.3.0 and previous versions have been yanked.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • http-rs async-h1

    fixed in 2.3.0

  • async-h1crates.io

    fixed in 2.3.0

  • async-h1crates.io

    From 0.0.0-0 · fixed in 2.3.0

References 2

GitHub · http-rs/async-h1