Bug 1872648 (CVE-2020-15694)

Summary:	CVE-2020-15694 nim: standard library httpClient fails to properly validate the server response
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	sergey.avseyev
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-08-26 09:36:25 UTC

In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library httpClient fails to properly validate the server response. For example, httpClient.get().contentLength() does not raise any error if a malicious server provides a negative Content-Length.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/dc5a40f3f39c6ea672e6dc6aca7f8118a69dda99/lib/pure/httpclient.nim#L241

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2020-08-26 09:36:45 UTC

Created nim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1872649]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-08-26 13:17:39 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.