HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting meinheld package, versions [,1.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-MEINHELD-569140
  • published21 May 2020
  • disclosed17 May 2020
  • creditSam Sanoop of Snyk Security Team

Introduced: 17 May 2020

CVE-2020-7658  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade meinheld to version 1.0.2 or higher.

Overview

meinheld is a High performance asynchronous Python WSGI Web Server

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. HTTP pipelining issues and request smuggling attacks might be possible due to incorrect Content-Length and Transfer encoding header parsing.

It is possible conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks by sending the Content-Length header twice. By manipulating the HTTP response the attacker could poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack, or obtain sensitive information from requests other than their own. Furthermore, invalid Transfer Encoding headers were found to be parsed as valid which could be leveraged for CL:TE or TE:CL smuggling attacks.

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