Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2024-21647 |
CWE-ID | CWE-444 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Puma Server applications / Web servers |
Vendor | Evan Phoenix |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU85835
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.3 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21647
CWE-ID:
CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests when parsing chunked transfer encoding bodies. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
MitigationInstall updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsPuma: 5.0.0 - 6.4.1
External linkshttp://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-c2f4-cvqm-65w2
http://github.com/puma/puma/commit/5fc43d73b6ff193325e657a24ed76dec79133e93
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.