hyper is an open-source HTTP library for Rust (crates.io). In hyper from version 0.12.0 and before versions 0.13.10 and 0.14.3 there is a vulnerability that can enable a request smuggling attack. The HTTP server code had a flaw that incorrectly understands some requests with multiple transfer-encoding headers to have a chunked payload, when it should have been rejected as illegal. This combined with an upstream HTTP proxy that understands the request payload boundary differently can result in "request smuggling" or "desync attacks". To determine if vulnerable, all these things must be true: 1) Using hyper as an HTTP server (the client is not affected), 2) Using HTTP/1.1 (HTTP/2 does not use transfer-encoding), 3) Using a vulnerable HTTP proxy upstream to hyper. If an upstream proxy correctly rejects the illegal transfer-encoding headers, the desync attack cannot succeed. If there is no proxy upstream of hyper, hyper cannot start the desync attack, as the client will repair the headers before forwarding. This is fixed in versions 0.14.3 and 0.13.10. As a workaround one can take the following options: 1) Reject requests that contain a `transfer-encoding` header, 2) Ensure any upstream proxy handles `transfer-encoding` correctly.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://crates.io/crates/hyper | Product Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/commit/8f93123efef5c1361086688fe4f34c83c89cec02 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/security/advisories/GHSA-6hfq-h8hq-87mf | Third Party Advisory |
https://portswigger.net/research/http-desync-attacks-request-smuggling-reborn | Third Party Advisory |
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0020.html | Third Party Advisory |
https://crates.io/crates/hyper | Product Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/commit/8f93123efef5c1361086688fe4f34c83c89cec02 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/security/advisories/GHSA-6hfq-h8hq-87mf | Third Party Advisory |
https://portswigger.net/research/http-desync-attacks-request-smuggling-reborn | Third Party Advisory |
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0020.html | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
Configuration 1 (hide)
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History
21 Nov 2024, 05:47
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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References | () https://crates.io/crates/hyper - Product, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/commit/8f93123efef5c1361086688fe4f34c83c89cec02 - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/security/advisories/GHSA-6hfq-h8hq-87mf - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://portswigger.net/research/http-desync-attacks-request-smuggling-reborn - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0020.html - Third Party Advisory | |
CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : 6.8
v3 : 4.8 |
Information
Published : 2021-02-11 18:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 05:47
NVD link : CVE-2021-21299
Mitre link : CVE-2021-21299
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-21299
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Products Affected
hyper
- hyper
CWE
CWE-444
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')