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CVE-2020-15693

Published: Aug 14, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library httpClient is vulnerable to a CR-LF injection in the target URL. An injection is possible if the attacker controls any part of the URL provided in a call (such as httpClient.get or httpClient.post), the User-Agent header value, or custom HTTP header names or values.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/dc5a40f3f39c6ea672e6dc6aca7f8118a69dda99/lib/pure/httpclient.nim#L1023

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https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/07/30/versions-126-and-108-released.html

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[oss-security] 20210204 [CVE-2020-15693, CVE-2020-15694] Nim - stdlib Httpclient - Header Crlf Injection & Server Response Validation

mailing-list

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https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-httpclient-header-crlf-injection/

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