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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-16792

Waitress through version 1.3.1 allows request smuggling by sending the Content-Length header twice.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.98%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.98%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.98% probability · 79th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-444
Affected
agendaless/waitress · oracle/communications cloud native core network function cloud native environment · debian/debian linux
Source
security-advisories@github.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.