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GitHub Advisory DatabaseGHSA-968F-66R5-5V74

HistoryJan 06, 2020 - 6:44 p.m.

HTTP Request Smuggling in Waitress: Invalid whitespace characters in headers (Follow-up)

2020-01-0618:44:21

CWE-444

GitHub Advisory Database

github.com

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

8.2 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

64.5%

JSON

Impact

The patches introduced to fix https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-m5ff-3wj3-8ph4 were not complete and still would allow an attacker to smuggle requests/split a HTTP request with invalid data.

This updates the existing CVE with ID: CVE-2019-16789

Patches

Waitress version 1.4.2 has been updated to now validate HTTP headers better to avoid the issue, completely fixing all known issues with whitespace.

Workarounds

There are no work-arounds, upgrading to Waitress 1.4.2 is highly recommended.

References

See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-m5ff-3wj3-8ph4 for more information on the security issue.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

open an issue at https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues (if not sensitive or security related)
email the Pylons Security mailing list: [email protected] (if security related)