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CVE-2019-16786: HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress

December 20, 2019 (updated November 19, 2024)

Waitress would parse the Transfer-Encoding header and only look for a single string value, if that value was not chunked it would fall through and use the Content-Length header instead.

According to the HTTP standard Transfer-Encoding should be a comma separated list, with the inner-most encoding first, followed by any further transfer codings, ending with chunked.

Requests sent with:

Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked

Would incorrectly get ignored, and the request would use a Content-Length header instead to determine the body size of the HTTP message.

This could allow for Waitress to treat a single request as multiple requests in the case of HTTP pipelining.

References

  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0720
  • docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/f11093a6b3240fc26830b6111e826128af7771c3
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-g2xc-35jw-c63p
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-g2xc-35jw-c63p
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/waitress/PYSEC-2019-137.yaml
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00011.html
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GVDHR2DNKCNQ7YQXISJ45NT4IQDX3LJ7
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYEOTGWJZVKPRXX2HBNVIYWCX73QYPM5
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16786
  • www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.4.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.4.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.4.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

Source file

pypi/waitress/CVE-2019-16786.yml

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