HTTP Response Splitting Affecting waitress package, versions [,0.8.11b0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-WAITRESS-40566
  • published 7 Oct 2015
  • disclosed 7 Oct 2015
  • credit Bert JW Regeer

Introduced: 7 Oct 2015

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-113 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

waitress is a Waitress WSGI server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks. It is possible to set arbitrary headers in the HTTP response by embedding a \r or \n character in the header value, and sending it to the server.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None