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CVE-2019-17513
An issue was discovered in Ratpack before 1.7.5. Due to a misuse of the Netty library class DefaultHttpHeaders, there is no validation…
High7.5EPSS 2.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in Ratpack before 1.7.5. Due to a misuse of the Netty library class DefaultHttpHeaders, there is no validation that headers lack HTTP control characters. Thus, if untrusted data is used to construct HTTP headers with Ratpack, HTTP Response Splitting can occur.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenio.ratpack:ratpack-coreGHSA-mvqp-q37c-wf9j (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/commit/efb910d38a96494256f36675ef0e5061097dd77d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/commit/c560a8d10cb8bdd7a526c1ca2e67c8f224ca23ae (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://ratpack.io/versions/1.7.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/security/advisories/GHSA-mvqp-q37c-wf9j (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/releases/tag/v1.7.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mvqp-q37c-wf9j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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