Description
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.
Published: 2019-12-20
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3000-1 waitress security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-0157 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g2xc-35jw-c63p HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress
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Agendaless Waitress
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment
Redhat Openstack Quay
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:24:48.017Z

Reserved: 2019-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-16786

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-20T23:15:11.277

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:31:11.360

Link: CVE-2019-16786

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-12-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-16786 - Bugzilla

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