CVE-2019-16789

NameCVE-2019-16789
DescriptionIn Waitress through version 1.4.0, if a proxy server is used in front of waitress, an invalid request may be sent by an attacker that bypasses the front-end and is parsed differently by waitress leading to a potential for HTTP request smuggling. Specially crafted requests containing special whitespace characters in the Transfer-Encoding header would get parsed by Waitress as being a chunked request, but a front-end server would use the Content-Length instead as the Transfer-Encoding header is considered invalid due to containing invalid characters. If a front-end server does HTTP pipelining to a backend Waitress server this could lead to HTTP request splitting which may lead to potential cache poisoning or unexpected information disclosure. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.1 through more strict HTTP field validation.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2056-1, DLA-3000-1
Debian Bugs947433

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
waitress (PTS)buster, buster (security)1.2.0~b2-2+deb10u1fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1.4.4-1.1+deb11u1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm2.1.2-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
waitresssourcejessie0.8.9-2+deb8u1DLA-2056-1
waitresssourcestretch1.0.1-1+deb9u1DLA-3000-1
waitresssourcebuster1.2.0~b2-2+deb10u1
waitresssource(unstable)1.4.1-1947433

Notes

https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-m5ff-3wj3-8ph4
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/11d9e138125ad46e951027184b13242a3c1de017

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