CVE-2019-16786

Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 20
Latest updateJan 15

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 us

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 4.7

Affected Packages6 packages

PyPIwaitress< 1.4.0
NVDagendaless/waitress< 1.3.1
Debianwaitress< 1.4.1-1+3
CVEListV5pylons/waitress1.3.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 30, 31

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
CVEList
HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress2019-12-20
OSV
HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress2019-12-20
OSV
CVE-2019-16786: Waitress through version 12019-12-20
GHSA
HTTP Request Smuggling: Invalid Transfer-Encoding in Waitress2019-12-20

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
waitress: HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding2019-12-20
Debian
CVE-2019-16786: waitress - Waitress through version 1.3.1 would parse the Transfer-Encoding header and only...2019

💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16786 waitress: HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding2020-01-15
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16786 python-waitress: waitress: HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding [fedora-all]2020-01-15
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16786 python-waitress: waitress: HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding [openstack-rdo]2020-01-15
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16786 python-waitress: waitress: HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding [epel-all]2020-01-15