CVE-2019-16792
HTTP Request Smuggling: Content-Length Sent Twice in Waitress
- Published
- Updated
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- GitHub_M
Description
Waitress through version 1.3.1 allows request smuggling by sending the Content-Length header twice. Waitress would header fold a double Content-Length header and due to being unable to cast the now comma separated value to an integer would set the Content-Length to 0 internally. If two Content-Length headers are sent in a single request, Waitress would treat the request as having no body, thereby treating the body of the request as a new request in HTTP pipelining. This issue is fixed in Waitress 1.4.0.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIwaitressGHSA-4ppp-gpcr-7qf6 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/#security-fixes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-4ppp-gpcr-7qf6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/575994cd42e83fd772a5f7ec98b2c56751bd3f65 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220512 [SECURITY] [DLA 3000-1] waitress security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4ppp-gpcr-7qf6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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