Advisories for Gem/Goliath package

2020

Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request Smuggling)

goliath allows request smuggling attacks where goliath is used as a used as a backend with a frontend proxy that is also vulnerable. It is possible to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks by sending the Content-Length header twice. Furthermore, invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were found to be parsed as valid which could be leveraged for TE:CL smuggling attacks.