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CVE-2019-20372 Public exploit EPSS 15.0%

NGINX before 1.17.7, with certain error_page configurations, allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the…

Summary

NGINX versions before 1.17.7 contain a flaw in how the server handles certain error_page configurations, enabling HTTP request smuggling. An attacker can exploit it to read unauthorized web pages where NGINX sits behind a load balancer, and this requires only that the server is configured with the affected error_page settings.

Official description · CVE.org

NGINX before 1.17.7, with certain error_page configurations, allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ability of an attacker to read unauthorized web pages in environments where NGINX is being fronted by a load balancer.

Breakdown
28.2 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
1
Tactics
0/15

Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) appeared 4 years after disclosure. No confirmed exploitation is recorded.

  1. Disclosedday 0
  2. Public exploit codePoC-in-GitHub+4 yrs

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

Named in 1 threat report
1 reportTrustwave

Reports are matched by finding the exact id CVE-2019-20372 in their text; nobody has reviewed the match. One passage is shown per report, at most 320 characters, linked to the original.

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