CVE-2019-16792

Summary

CVECVE-2019-16792
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-22 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-23 18:58:00 UTC
DescriptionWaitress 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-444

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Agendaless Waitress All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment 1.10.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Upon receiving invalid Content-Length bail · Pylons/waitress@575994c · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
[SECURITY] [DLA 3000-1] waitress security update MLIST lists.debian.org
HTTP Request Smuggling: Content-Length Sent Twice · Advisory · Pylons/waitress · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
Waitress — waitress 2.0.0 documentation MISC docs.pylonsproject.org Release Notes
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174724 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for python-waitress (SUSE-SU-2020:3269-1)
  • 179276 Debian Security Update for waitress (DLA 3000-1)
  • 296075 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21.69.0 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 750599 OpenSUSE Security Update for python-waitress (openSUSE-SU-2020:1922-1)
  • 750606 OpenSUSE Security Update for python-waitress (openSUSE-SU-2020:1911-1)
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