CVE-2020-11724 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in OpenResty before 1.15.8.4. ngx_http_lua_subrequest.c allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ngx.location.capture API.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01636.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Openresty	Openresty

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:openresty:openresty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*

No data.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-2283-1	nginx security update
Debian DSA	DSA-4750-1	nginx security update
EUVD	EUVD-2020-4066	An issue was discovered in OpenResty before 1.15.8.4. ngx_http_lua_subrequest.c allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ngx.location.capture API.
Ubuntu USN	USN-5371-1	nginx vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-5371-3	nginx vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module/commit/9ab38e8ee35fc08a57636b1b6190dca70b0076fa
https://github.com/openresty/openresty/blob/4e8b4c395f842a078e429c80dd063b2323999957/patches/ngx_http_lua-0.10.15-fix_location_capture_content_length_chunked.patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00014.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0002/
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4750

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.01252}`	epss `{'score': 0.01286}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-04-12T20:55:26

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:41:58.149Z

Reserved: 2020-04-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-11724

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-12T21:15:10.317

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:58:29.307

Link: CVE-2020-11724

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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