CVE-2024-49768: Waitress has request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with invalid first request
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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.
References
- github.com/Pylons/waitress
- github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/e4359018537af376cf24bd13616d861e2fb76f65
- github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/waitress/PYSEC-2024-210.yaml
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49768
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