HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting waitress package, versions <1.0.1-1+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-WAITRESS-542969
  • published22 Jan 2020
  • disclosed22 Jan 2020

Introduced: 22 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-16792  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 waitress to version 1.0.1-1+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream waitress package and not the waitress package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Waitress through version 1.3.1 allows request smuggling by sending the Content-Length header twice. Waitress would header fold a double Content-Length header and due to being unable to cast the now comma separated value to an integer would set the Content-Length to 0 internally. If two Content-Length headers are sent in a single request, Waitress would treat the request as having no body, thereby treating the body of the request as a new request in HTTP pipelining. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1