CVE-2019-16786
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 30, 31
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4📋Vendor Advisories
2💬Community
4Bugzilla
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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