HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting waitress package, versions [,1.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.77% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WAITRESS-538573
  • published22 Dec 2019
  • disclosed13 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-16785  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade waitress to version 1.4.0 or higher.

Overview

waitress is a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. If a front-end server does not parse header fields with an LF the same way as it does those with a CRLF it can lead to the front-end and the back-end server parsing the same HTTP message in two different ways. This could lead to a potential for HTTP request smuggling/splitting whereby Waitress may see two requests while the front-end server only sees a single HTTP message.

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