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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2020-83

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2020-83
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published February 13, 2020
Updated python-waitress packages fix security vulnerabilities: If a front-end server does not parse header fields with an LF the same way as it does those with a CRLF it can lead to the front-end and the back-end server parsing the same HTTP message in two different ways. This can lead to a potential for HTTP request smuggling/splitting whereby Waitress may see two requests while the front-end server only sees a single HTTP message (CVE-2019-16785). 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. This could allow for Waitress to treat a single request as multiple requests in the case of HTTP pipelining (CVE-2019-16786). In Waitress through version 1.4.0, if a proxy server is used in front of waitress, an invalid request may be sent by an attacker that bypasses the front-end and is parsed differently by waitress leading to a potential for HTTP request smuggling. If a front-end server does HTTP pipelining to a backend Waitress server this could lead to HTTP request splitting which may lead to potential cache poisoning or unexpected information disclosure (CVE-2019-16789).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiapython-waitress0 (affected), 1.4.2-1.mga7 (unaffected)—

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