CVE-2019-16786CWE-444

HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress

High · published December 20, 2019

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
2%
Percentile
83.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Waitress through version 1.3.1 would parse the Transfer-Encoding header and only look for a single string value, if that value was not chunked it would fall through and use the Content-Length header instead. According to the HTTP standard Transfer-Encoding should be a comma separated list, with the inner-most encoding first, followed by any further transfer codings, ending with chunked. Requests sent with: "Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked" would incorrectly get ignored, and the request would use a Content-Length header instead to determine the body size of the HTTP message. This could allow for Waitress to treat a single request as multiple requests in the case of HTTP pipelining. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02379 · 83.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Published
2019-12-20T23:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 DEC 23:00Z
    HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress
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