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🛡️ CVE-2024-47220 — webrick

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

HTTP Request Smuggling in ruby webrick

An issue was discovered in the WEBrick toolkit through 1.8.1 for Ruby. It allows HTTP request smuggling by providing both a Content-Length header and a Transfer-Encoding header, e.g., "GET /admin HTTP/1.1\r\n" inside of a "POST /user HTTP/1.1\r\n" request. NOTE: the supplier's position is "Webrick should not be used in production."

Affected software

CVE-2024-47220 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • unknown
  • webrick (fixed in 1.8.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 September 2024 and last revised on 21 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

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Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-22
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown
webrick 1.8.2

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