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CVE-2022-39348: Twisted vulnerable to NameVirtualHost Host header injection

October 26, 2022 (updated November 4, 2025)

When the host header does not match a configured host, twisted.web.vhost.NameVirtualHost will return a NoResource resource which renders the Host header unescaped into the 404 response allowing HTML and script injection.

Example configuration:

from twisted.web.server import Site
from twisted.web.vhost import NameVirtualHost
from twisted.internet import reactor

resource = NameVirtualHost()
site = Site(resource)
reactor.listenTCP(8080, site)
reactor.run()

Output:

❯ curl -H"Host:<h1>HELLO THERE</h1>" http://localhost:8080/

<html>
<head><title>404 - No Such Resource</title></head>
<body>
<h1>No Such Resource</h1>
<p>host b'<h1>hello there</h1>' not in vhost map</p>
</body>
</html>

This vulnerability was introduced in f49041bb67792506d85aeda9cf6157e92f8048f4 and first appeared in the 0.9.4 release.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg46-2rrj-3647
  • github.com/twisted/twisted
  • github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/f2f5e81c03f14e253e85fe457e646130780db40b
  • github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/f49041bb67792506d85aeda9cf6157e92f8048f4
  • github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-vg46-2rrj-3647
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00038.html
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00028.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39348
  • security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-02

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.9.4 before 22.10.0rc1

Fixed versions

  • 22.10.0rc1

Solution

Upgrade to version 22.10.0rc1 or above.

Impact 5.4 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
  • CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

Source file

pypi/Twisted/CVE-2022-39348.yml

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