CVE-2020-7238

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.036 · 90 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.65% (90th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

31 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-444USprimaryCWE-444USCWE-444US

affected products (31)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Dell ECS <3.8.1.0all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerEdgeall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/h:dell:poweredge:-
IBM InfoSphere Information Serverall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:-
Dell ECS< 3.8.1.0cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation netty≤ 4.1.43fstec_bduRU
Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu≤ 14.04 LTSfstec_bduRU
Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu≤ 16.04 LTSfstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. EAP-CD≤ 19 Tech Previewfstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat AMQ≤ 7.4.3fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat AMQ Clients≤ 2.y for RHEL 8fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat AMQ Clients≤ 2.y for RHEL 6fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat AMQ Clients≤ 2.y for RHEL 7fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat AMQ Online≤ 1.3.3 GAfstec_bduRU
АО «НППКТ» ОСОН ОСнова Оnyx≤ 2.1fstec_bduRU
ООО «Ред Софт» РЕД ОС≤ 7.3fstec_bduRU
ООО «РусБИТех-Астра» Astra Linux Special Edition≤ 1.7fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 9fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 10fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 8fstec_bduRU

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0794Dell ECS: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-04-04csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell ECS ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erweitern, beliebigen Programmcode mit Administratorrechten auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, Dateien zu manipulieren, einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen, Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen oder einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen.
GHSA-ff2w-cq2g-wv5fHTTP Request Smuggling in Netty2020-02-21ghsa · osvUS
Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-01-27modified 2026-06-17

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references (91)

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