HTTP Response Splitting Affecting waitress package, versions [,0.9.0b1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-WAITRESS-564339
  • published 1 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 17 Mar 2016
  • credit Jason Madden

Introduced: 17 Mar 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade waitress to version 0.9.0b1 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 Response Splitting. Lack of validating for line feed/carriage return HTTP Response Splitting in the status line, as well as the key of a header.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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