CVE-2024-49768 – waitress

Package

Manager: pip
Name: waitress
Vulnerable Version: >=2.0.0 <3.0.1

Severity

Level: Critical

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00044 pctl0.12654

Details

Waitress has request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with invalid first request ### Impact A remote client may send a request that is exactly `recv_bytes` (defaults to 8192) long, followed by a secondary request using HTTP pipelining. When request lookahead is disabled (default) we won't read any more requests, and when the first request fails due to a parsing error, we simply close the connection. However when request lookahead is enabled, it is possible to process and receive the first request, start sending the error message back to the client while we read the next request and queue it. This will allow the secondary request to be serviced by the worker thread while the connection should be closed. ### Patches Waitress 3.0.1 fixes the race condition. ### Workarounds Disable `channel_request_lookahead`, this is set to `0` by default disabling this feature. For this vulnerability this value is required to be changed from the default. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues (if not sensitive or security related) * email the Pylons Security mailing list: [pylons-project-security@googlegroups.com](mailto:pylons-project-security@googlegroups.com) (if security related) ### Thanks - m4yfly and urn1ce From TianGong Team of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group.

Metadata

Created: 2024-10-29T14:45:03Z
Modified: 2025-01-21T17:53:26Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/10/GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj/GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-367", "CWE-444"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj
Finding: F124
Auto approve: 1