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CVE-2020-5207

7.5 highEPSS 0.8%

High (7.5) in jetbrains ktor. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in io.ktor:ktor-client-cio 1.3.0.

In Ktor before 1.3.0, request smuggling is possible when running behind a proxy that doesn't handle Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding properly or doesn't handle \n as a headers separator.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-444
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433vMavenio.ktor:ktor-client-cio<1.3.01.3.0
GHSA-xrr9-rh8p-433vMavenio.ktor:ktor-server-cio<1.3.01.3.0

References

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