CVE-2020-28473

Summary

CVECVE-2020-28473
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-18 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-01-28 15:57:00 UTC
DescriptionThe package bottle from 0 and before 0.12.19 are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-444

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bottlepy Bottle All All All All
Application Bottlepy Bottle All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cache poisoning in popular open source packages | Snyk Blog CONFIRM snyk.io Third Party Advisory
bottlepy/bottle · GitHub MISC github.com Product, Third Party Advisory
Web Cache Poisoning in bottle | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2531-1] python-bottle security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Snyk Security Team

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198535 Ubuntu Security Notification for Bottle Vulnerability (USN-5105-1)
  • 750357 OpenSUSE Security Update for python-bottle (openSUSE-SU-2021:0302-1)
  • 982814 Python (pip) Security Update for bottle (GHSA-qhx9-7hx7-cp4r)
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