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GHSA-j7j6-7hfx-5522: Duplicate Advisory: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests in Waitress

May 24, 2022 (updated January 22, 2026)

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-36p8-mvp6-cv38. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

Waitress through version 1.3.1 allows request smuggling by sending the Content-Length header twice. Waitress would header fold a double Content-Length header and due to being unable to cast the now comma separated value to an integer would set the Content-Length to 0 internally. If two Content-Length headers are sent in a single request, Waitress would treat the request as having no body, thereby treating the body of the request as a new request in HTTP pipelining. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.

References

  • docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/575994cd42e83fd772a5f7ec98b2c56751bd3f65
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-4ppp-gpcr-7qf6
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7j6-7hfx-5522
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00011.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16792
  • 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/GHSA-j7j6-7hfx-5522.yml

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