CVE-2024-49768
Waitress has request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with invalid first request
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Waitress has request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with invalid first request
Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. 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. Waitress 3.0.1 fixes the race condition. As a workaround, disable channel_request_lookahead, this is set to 0 by default disabling this feature.
Reserved 2024-10-18 | Published 2024-10-29 | Updated 2024-10-29 | Assigner GitHub_MCWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
github.com/...itress/security/advisories/GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj
github.com/...ommit/e4359018537af376cf24bd13616d861e2fb76f65
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