Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests in Go programming language - CVE-2015-5741
Published: February 8, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30372
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5741
CWE-ID: CWE-444
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Go programming language
Go programming language
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The net/http library in net/http/transfer.go in Go before 1.4.3 does not properly parse HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a request that contains Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding header fields.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-5741
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/167997.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168029.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/237
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/292
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/294
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250352
- https://github.com/golang/go/commit/300d9a21583e7cf0149a778a0611e76ff7c6680f