Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-11505 - HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability in Gitlab
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) before 12.7.9, 12.8.x before 12.8.9, and 12.9.x before 12.9.3. A Workhorse bypass could lead to NuGet package and file disclosure (Exposure of Sensitive Information) via request smuggling.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP Request Splitting HTTP Request Splitting (also known as HTTP Request Smuggling) is an attack pattern where an attacker attempts to insert additional HTTP requests in the body of the original (enveloping) HTTP request in such a way that the browser interprets it as one request but the web server interprets it as two. There are several ways to perform HTTP request splitting attacks. One way is to include double Content-Length headers in the request to exploit the fact that the devices parsing the request may each use a different header. Another way is to submit an HTTP request with a "Transfer Encoding: chunked" in the request header set with setRequestHeader to allow a payload in the HTTP Request that can be considered as another HTTP Request by a subsequent parsing entity. A third way is to use the "Double CR in an HTTP header" technique. There are also a few less general techniques targeting specific parsing vulnerabilities in certain web servers.
- HTTP Request Smuggling HTTP Request Smuggling results from the discrepancies in parsing HTTP requests between HTTP entities such as web caching proxies or application firewalls. Entities such as web servers, web caching proxies, application firewalls or simple proxies often parse HTTP requests in slightly different ways. Under specific situations where there are two or more such entities in the path of the HTTP request, a specially crafted request is seen by two attacked entities as two different sets of requests. This allows certain requests to be smuggled through to a second entity without the first one realizing it.
Nessus
| NASL family | FreeBSD Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | FREEBSD_PKG_570706FF7EE011EABD0B001B217B3468.NASL |
| description | Gitlab reports : NuGet Package and File Disclosure through GitLab Workhorse Job Artifact Uploads and File Disclosure through GitLab Workhorse Incorrect membership following group removal Logging of Praefect tokens Update Rack dependency Update OpenSSL dependency |
| last seen | 2020-05-03 |
| modified | 2020-04-16 |
| plugin id | 135603 |
| published | 2020-04-16 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135603 |
| title | FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple Vulnerabilities (570706ff-7ee0-11ea-bd0b-001b217b3468) |
| code | |
References
- https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/04/14/critical-security-release-gitlab-12-dot-9-dot-3-released/
- https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/04/14/critical-security-release-gitlab-12-dot-9-dot-3-released/