HTTP Header Injection Affecting eventlet package, versions [,0.37.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-EVENTLET-8136230
  • published1 Oct 2024
  • disclosed1 Oct 2024
  • creditkevin-mizu

Introduced: 1 Oct 2024

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-644  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade eventlet to version 0.37.0 or higher.

Overview

eventlet is a Highly concurrent networking library

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Header Injection via HTTP header processing within the WSGI implementation, allowing the usage of _ in the headers.

By exploiting this vulnerability attackers could craft specially formatted headers, potentially causing header name collisions or overwriting important headers in the WSGI environment.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1