CVE-2020-11724

Publication date 12 April 2020

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in OpenResty before 1.15.8.4. ngx_http_lua_subrequest.c allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ngx.location.capture API.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nginx 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.18.0-0ubuntu1.3
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.14.0-0ubuntu1.10
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.5+esm4
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable

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Notes

mdeslaur

The lua module is included in the debian directory as it is not part of the upstream nginx release. It is included in the nginx-extras binary package in universe.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N