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GHSA-g2xc-35jw-c63p

Опубликовано: 20 дек. 2019
Источник: github
Github: Прошло ревью
CVSS4: 5.1
CVSS3: 7.1

Описание

HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress

Impact

Waitress would parse the Transfer-Encoding header and only look for a single string value, if that value was not chunked it would fall through and use the Content-Length header instead.

According to the HTTP standard Transfer-Encoding should be a comma separated list, with the inner-most encoding first, followed by any further transfer codings, ending with chunked.

Requests sent with:

Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked

Would incorrectly get ignored, and the request would use a Content-Length header instead to determine the body size of the HTTP message.

This could allow for Waitress to treat a single request as multiple requests in the case of HTTP pipelining.

Patches

This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0. This brings a range of changes to harden Waitress against potential HTTP request confusions, and may change the behaviour of Waitress behind non-conformist proxies.

Waitress will now return a 501 Not Implemented error if the Transfer-Encoding is not chunked or contains multiple elements. Waitress does not support any transfer codings such as gzip or deflate.

The Pylons Project recommends upgrading as soon as possible, while validating that the changes in Waitress don't cause any changes in behavior.

Workarounds

Various reverse proxies may have protections against sending potentially bad HTTP requests to the backend, and or hardening against potential issues like this. If the reverse proxy doesn't use HTTP/1.1 for connecting to the backend issues are also somewhat mitigated, as HTTP pipelining does not exist in HTTP/1.0 and Waitress will close the connection after every single request (unless the Keep Alive header is explicitly sent... so this is not a fool proof security method).

Issues/more security issues:

Пакеты

Наименование

waitress

pip
Затронутые версииВерсия исправления

< 1.4.0

1.4.0

EPSS

Процентиль: 75%
0.00898
Низкий

5.1 Medium

CVSS4

7.1 High

CVSS3

Дефекты

CWE-444

Связанные уязвимости

CVSS3: 7.1
ubuntu
около 6 лет назад

Waitress through version 1.3.1 would parse the Transfer-Encoding header and only look for a single string value, if that value was not chunked it would fall through and use the Content-Length header instead. According to the HTTP standard Transfer-Encoding should be a comma separated list, with the inner-most encoding first, followed by any further transfer codings, ending with chunked. Requests sent with: "Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked" would incorrectly get ignored, and the request would use a Content-Length header instead to determine the body size of the HTTP message. This could allow for Waitress to treat a single request as multiple requests in the case of HTTP pipelining. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.

CVSS3: 7.1
redhat
около 6 лет назад

Waitress through version 1.3.1 would parse the Transfer-Encoding header and only look for a single string value, if that value was not chunked it would fall through and use the Content-Length header instead. According to the HTTP standard Transfer-Encoding should be a comma separated list, with the inner-most encoding first, followed by any further transfer codings, ending with chunked. Requests sent with: "Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked" would incorrectly get ignored, and the request would use a Content-Length header instead to determine the body size of the HTTP message. This could allow for Waitress to treat a single request as multiple requests in the case of HTTP pipelining. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.

CVSS3: 7.1
nvd
около 6 лет назад

Waitress through version 1.3.1 would parse the Transfer-Encoding header and only look for a single string value, if that value was not chunked it would fall through and use the Content-Length header instead. According to the HTTP standard Transfer-Encoding should be a comma separated list, with the inner-most encoding first, followed by any further transfer codings, ending with chunked. Requests sent with: "Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked" would incorrectly get ignored, and the request would use a Content-Length header instead to determine the body size of the HTTP message. This could allow for Waitress to treat a single request as multiple requests in the case of HTTP pipelining. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.

CVSS3: 7.1
debian
около 6 лет назад

Waitress through version 1.3.1 would parse the Transfer-Encoding heade ...

CVSS3: 7.5
fstec
около 6 лет назад

Уязвимость WSGI сервера для python Waitress, позволяющая нарушителю оказать воздействие на целостность данных

EPSS

Процентиль: 75%
0.00898
Низкий

5.1 Medium

CVSS4

7.1 High

CVSS3

Дефекты

CWE-444