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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 an…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AgendalessWaitress
through 1.4.0
OracleCommunications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment
Version 1.10.0
DebianDebian Linux
Version 9.0
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 30, 31
RedhatOpenstack
Version 15

Weakness classification

CWE-444

References