CVE-2019-16789
In Waitress through version 1.4.0, if a proxy server is used in front of waitress, an invalid request may be sent by an attacker that bypasses the front-end and is parsed differently by waitress leading to a potential for HTTP request smuggling.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.59%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
In Waitress through version 1.4.0, if a proxy server is used in front of waitress, an invalid request may be sent by an attacker that bypasses the front-end and is parsed differently by waitress leading to a potential for HTTP request smuggling. Specially crafted requests containing special whitespace characters in the Transfer-Encoding header would get parsed by Waitress as being a chunked request, but a front-end server would use the Content-Length instead as the Transfer-Encoding header is considered invalid due to containing invalid characters. If a front-end server does HTTP pipelining to a backend Waitress server this could lead to HTTP request splitting which may lead to potential cache poisoning or unexpected information disclosure. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.1 through more strict HTTP field validation.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.59% probability · 84th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-444
- Affected
- agendaless/waitress · oracle/communications cloud native core network function cloud native environment · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora · redhat/openstack
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0720Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/#security-fixesRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/11d9e138125ad46e951027184b13242a3c1de017Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/github/advisory-review/pull/14604Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GVDHR2DNKCNQ7YQXISJ45NT4IQDX3LJ7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYEOTGWJZVKPRXX2HBNVIYWCX73QYPM5/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0720Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/#security-fixesRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/11d9e138125ad46e951027184b13242a3c1de017Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/github/advisory-review/pull/14604Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GVDHR2DNKCNQ7YQXISJ45NT4IQDX3LJ7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYEOTGWJZVKPRXX2HBNVIYWCX73QYPM5/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.