CVE-2020-1710 Other in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

JBoss EAP fails to reject malformed HTTP headers per RFC7230, returning 200 instead of 400, potentially causing request smuggling or cache poisoning.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2020-1710?

CVE-2020-1710 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, published on 16 Sep 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The issue appears to be that JBoss EAP 6.4.21 does not parse the field-name in accordance to RFC7230[1] as it returns a 200 instead of a 400.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1710?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Redhat Jboss Data Grid, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Openshift Application Runtimes, Redhat Single Sign-On.

How do I fix CVE-2020-1710?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-1710 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1710 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-xqwp-g97m-cxpr.

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