Squid Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request Smuggling) Vulnerability - CVE-2020-15049 - Vulnerability Database

Squid Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request Smuggling) Vulnerability - CVE-2020-15049

High
Reference: CVE-2020-15049
Title: Squid Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request Smuggling) Vulnerability
Overview:

An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing quot quot-quot or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.