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CVE-2020-10108
Published:March 12, 2020
Updated:May 17, 2026
In Twisted Web through 19.10.0, there was an HTTP request splitting vulnerability. When presented with two content-length headers, it ignored the first header. When the second content-length value was set to zero, the request body was interpreted as a pipelined request.
Affected Packages
twisted (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=1.0.1 <20.3.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 20.3.0
Related Resources (24)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ISMZFZBWW4EV6ETJGXAYIXN3AT7GBPL/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ISMZFZBWW4EV6ETJGXAYIXN3AT7GBPL/
https://github.com/twisted/twisted
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4308-2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ISMZFZBWW4EV6ETJGXAYIXN3AT7GBPL
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00021.html
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/4a7d22e490bb8ff836892cc99a1f54b85ccb0281
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4308-2
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ISMZFZBWW4EV6ETJGXAYIXN3AT7GBPL
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10108
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4308-1
https://know.bishopfox.com/advisories
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/twisted/PYSEC-2020-259.yaml
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YW3NIL7VXSGJND2Q4BSXM3CFTAFU6T7D
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-24
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YW3NIL7VXSGJND2Q4BSXM3CFTAFU6T7D/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YW3NIL7VXSGJND2Q4BSXM3CFTAFU6T7D
https://know.bishopfox.com/advisories/twisted-version-19.10.0
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h96w-mmrf-2h6v
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YW3NIL7VXSGJND2Q4BSXM3CFTAFU6T7D/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10108
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4308-1/
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/blob/6ff2c40e42416c83203422ff70dfc49d2681c8e2/NEWS.rst#twisted-2030-2020-03-13
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
9.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Input Validation
CWE-20
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
CWE-444
EPSS
Base Score:
3.41