CVE-2015-5740

CRITICAL

Go <1.4.3 - HTTP Request Smuggling

Title source: llm

Description

The net/http library in net/http/transfer.go in Go before 1.4.3 does not properly parse HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a request with two Content-length headers.

References (8)

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/167997.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168029.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1538.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/237

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/292

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/294

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250352

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/300d9a21583e7cf0149a778a0611e76ff7c6680f

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0427

EPSS Percentile 88.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-444

Status draft

Affected Products (16)

golang/go < 1.4.2

fedoraproject/fedora

redhat/enterprise_linux_server

redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus

redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eus

redhat/enterprise_linux_server_tus

... and 1 more

Timeline

Published Oct 18, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026