CVE-2019-20372

MEDIUMNVD 5.35.3—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Elevated
5.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 15%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: Elevated riskExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

NGINX before 1.17.7, with certain error_page configurations, allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ability of an attacker to read unauthorized web pages in environments where NGINX is being fronted by a load balancer.

CVSS v3
5.3
EG Score
5.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity53% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
15%
EPSS %ILE
96th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

January 9, 2020

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

References (22)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-20372(5)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntunginx-light (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.9+esm1) @ trusty2026-05-27ubuntu
ubuntunginx-light (1.14.0-0ubuntu1.7) @ bionic2026-05-27ubuntu
redhatansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.7-12021-03-09redhat
redhatansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-rhel7:3.7.5-12021-03-09redhat
redhatnginx:1.16-8030020201124104955.229f0a1c2020-12-15redhat
redhatrh-nginx116-nginx-1:1.16.1-4.el7.12020-07-02redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(21 across 21 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r2: fixed in 1.16.1-r2
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Alpine:v3.11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.17(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-r6: fixed in 1.16.1-r6
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Alpine:v3.8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.14.2-r2: fixed in 1.14.2-r2
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Alpine:v3.9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.14.2-r5: fixed in 1.14.2-r5
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-3: fixed in 1.16.1-3
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-3: fixed in 1.16.1-3
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-3: fixed in 1.16.1-3
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nginx—
  • every version up to 1.16.1-3: fixed in 1.16.1-3
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 27× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoC0xleft/CVE-2019-20372
    First seen Sep 16, 2023

    nginx http request smugling error_page directive

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2019-20372?
CVE-2019-20372 is a medium vulnerability published on January 9, 2020. NGINX before 1.17.7, with certain error_page configurations, allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ability of an attacker to read unauthorized web pages in environments where NGINX is being fronted by a load balancer.
When was CVE-2019-20372 disclosed?
CVE-2019-20372 was first published on January 9, 2020, with the most recent update on November 21, 2024. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2019-20372 actively exploited?
CVE-2019-20372 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 15% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (96th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-20372?
CVE-2019-20372 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2019-20372?
A fix for CVE-2019-20372 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2019-20372 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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