CVE-2019-16792 vulnerability in Agendaless and Other Products

HTTP Request Smuggling: Content-Length Sent Twice in Waitress

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.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2019-16792 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.

Attack Vector:

NETWORK

Attack Complexity:

HIGH

Privileges Required:

LOW

User Interaction:

NONE

Scope:

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact:

HIGH

Integrity Impact:

LOW

Availability Impact:

NONE

Weakness Type

What is a HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability?

When malformed or abnormal HTTP requests are interpreted by one or more entities in the data flow between the user and the web server, such as a proxy or firewall, they can be interpreted inconsistently, allowing the attacker to "smuggle" a request to one device without the other device being aware of it.

CVE-2019-16792 has been classified to as a HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability or weakness.

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Affected Versions

Exploit Probability

EPSS

0.85%

Percentile

74.63%

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