Very Low
CVE-2020-12440
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Very Low
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MITRE ATT&CK
Collection
Command and Control
Credential Access
Defense Evasion
Discovery
Execution
Exfiltration
Impact
Initial Access
Lateral Movement
Persistence
Privilege Escalation
Description
** DISPUTED ** NGINX through 1.18.0 allows an HTTP request smuggling attack that can lead to cache poisoning, credential hijacking, or security bypass. NOTE: many third parties dispute the validity of this finding because it represents normal “Connection: keep-alive” behavior.
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Attacker ValueVery Low
Technical Analysis
At the very least I’d debate the legitimacy of this exploit given reports like https://twitter.com/albinowax/status/1263068436298633216 and https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12440 which suggest this CVE was withdrawn due to it not actually being a valid bug. I’m not sure why this was exploited in the wild as well as I see no evidence of this having been the case minus a light PoC whose validity is disputed (again probably also why this CVE was later revoked as not a security vulnerability).