Candidate: CVE-2020-15694
PublicDate: 2020-08-14 19:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15694
 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/dc5a40f3f39c6ea672e6dc6aca7f8118a69dda99/lib/pure/httpclient.nim#L241
 https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/07/30/versions-126-and-108-released.html
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Mitigation:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N [7.5 HIGH]


Patches_nim:
upstream_nim: needs-triage
precise/esm_nim: DNE
trusty_nim: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_nim: DNE
xenial_nim: ignored (end of standard support, was needs-triage)
bionic_nim: needs-triage
focal_nim: needs-triage
groovy_nim: released (1.2.6-1)
hirsute_nim: released (1.2.6-1)
impish_nim: released (1.2.6-1)