vulnerability
Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-16785: Vulnerability in Waitress
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | 2019-12-20 | 2021-01-19 | 2022-02-17 |
Description
Waitress through version 1.3.1 implemented a "MAY" part of the RFC7230 which states: "Although the line terminator for the start-line and header fields is the sequence CRLF, a recipient MAY recognize a single LF as a line terminator and ignore any preceding CR." Unfortunately if a front-end server does not parse header fields with an LF the same way as it does those with a CRLF it can lead to the front-end and the back-end server parsing the same HTTP message in two different ways. This can lead to a potential for HTTP request smuggling/splitting whereby Waitress may see two requests while the front-end server only sees a single HTTP message. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.
Solution(s)

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