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CVE-2020-7238

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 3.62% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-01-27 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2020-7238
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.62%

Original NVD Description

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.