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.
References
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0720 | Third Party Advisory |
https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/#security-fixes | Release Notes Vendor Advisory |
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/11d9e138125ad46e951027184b13242a3c1de017 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/github/advisory-review/pull/14604 | Broken Link Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00011.html | Mailing 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.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2019-12-26 17:15
Updated : 2024-02-28 17:28
NVD link : CVE-2019-16789
Mitre link : CVE-2019-16789
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-16789
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
agendaless
- waitress
redhat
- openstack
fedoraproject
- fedora
oracle
- communications_cloud_native_core_network_function_cloud_native_environment
CWE
CWE-444
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')