CVE-2020-11076

HIGH

Puma 3.0.0-3.12.5 and 4.0.0-4.3.3 - HTTP Request Smuggling via Invalid Transfer-Encoding Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2020-11076. PoCs published by dentarg.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains the source code and documentation for Puma, a Ruby web server, but does not include an exploit PoC for CVE-2020-11076. The README provides installation and configuration details for Puma.

Description

In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.4 and 3.12.5, an attacker could smuggle an HTTP response, by using an invalid transfer-encoding header. The problem has been fixed in Puma 3.12.5 and Puma 4.3.4.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP
by dentarg · poc
https://github.com/dentarg/cougar

This repository contains the source code and documentation for Puma, a Ruby web server, but does not include an exploit PoC for CVE-2020-11076. The README provides installation and configuration details for Puma.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Other
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: Puma (Ruby web server)
No auth needed
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00034.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00038.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00009.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0178
EPSS Percentile 83.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-444
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 33
puma/puma 3.0.0 - 3.12.6
rubygems/puma 0 - 3.12.5RubyGems
Published May 22, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026