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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS04cXB3LXhxeGotaDRyMs4AA47q

aiohttp's HTTP parser (the python one, not llhttp) still overly lenient about separators

Summary

Security-sensitive parts of the Python HTTP parser retained minor differences in allowable character sets, that must trigger error handling to robustly match frame boundaries of proxies in order to protect against injection of additional requests. Additionally, validation could trigger exceptions that were not handled consistently with processing of other malformed input.

Details

These problems are rooted in pattern matching protocol elements, previously improved by PR #3235 and GHSA-gfw2-4jvh-wgfg:

  1. The expression HTTP/(\d).(\d) lacked another backslash to clarify that the separator should be a literal dot, not just any Unicode code point (result: HTTP/(\d)\.(\d)).

  2. The HTTP version was permitting Unicode digits, where only ASCII digits are standards-compliant.

  3. Distinct regular expressions for validating HTTP Method and Header field names were used - though both should (at least) apply the common restrictions of rfc9110 token.

PoC

GET / HTTP/1ΓΆ1
GET / HTTP/1.πŸ™
GET/: HTTP/1.1
Content-Encoding?: chunked

Impact

Primarily concerns running an aiohttp server without llhttp:

  1. behind a proxy: Being more lenient than internet standards require could, depending on deployment environment, assist in request smuggling.
  2. directly accessible or exposed behind proxies relaying malformed input: the unhandled exception could cause excessive resource consumption on the application server and/or its logging facilities.

Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/8074/files

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS04cXB3LXhxeGotaDRyMs4AA47q
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: 3 months ago
Updated: 2 months ago


CVSS Score: 6.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Identifiers: GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2, CVE-2024-23829
References: Repository: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp
Blast Radius: 31.3

Affected Packages

pypi:aiohttp
Dependent packages: 4,004
Dependent repositories: 66,431
Downloads: 107,102,656 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 3.9.2
Fixed in: 3.9.2
All affected versions: 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.4.4, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.14.0, 0.14.1, 0.14.2, 0.14.3, 0.14.4, 0.15.0, 0.15.1, 0.15.2, 0.15.3, 0.16.0, 0.16.1, 0.16.2, 0.16.3, 0.16.4, 0.16.5, 0.16.6, 0.17.0, 0.17.1, 0.17.2, 0.17.3, 0.17.4, 0.18.0, 0.18.1, 0.18.2, 0.18.3, 0.18.4, 0.19.0, 0.20.0, 0.20.1, 0.20.2, 0.21.0, 0.21.1, 0.21.2, 0.21.4, 0.21.5, 0.21.6, 0.22.0, 0.22.1, 0.22.2, 0.22.3, 0.22.4, 0.22.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.5, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8, 2.3.9, 2.3.10, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.7.0, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.7.4, 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3, 3.8.4, 3.8.5, 3.8.6, 3.9.0, 3.9.1
All unaffected versions: 3.9.2, 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5