CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-35884 — An issue was discovered in the tiny_http crate through 2020-06-16 for Rust
Medium
CVSS 6.5
An issue was discovered in the tiny_http crate through 2020-06-16 for Rust. HTTP Request smuggling can occur via a malformed Transfer-Encoding header.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2020-12-31
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-444
Affected products
- tiny-http_project / tiny-http
- fedoraproject / fedora / 34
- fedoraproject / fedora / 35
Matched remediation archetype
HTTP request smuggling and message-boundary ambiguity
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Check exposure
- Inventory every proxy, CDN, gateway, load balancer, service mesh, and application server hop on affected request paths.
- Compare documented parsing and normalization behavior for message length, transfer coding, duplicate headers, and protocol translation.
- Identify connection reuse and which downstream services trust headers added by intermediaries.
Remediate safely
- Update affected intermediaries and origin servers and align them on a single standards-compliant request framing policy.
- Reject ambiguous length, transfer-coding, duplicate, malformed, and unsupported framing before forwarding.
- Normalize or remove hop-by-hop and identity headers at one controlled boundary and add multi-hop regression tests.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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