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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS14eDlwLXh4dmgtN2c4as4AA3Hw

Aiohttp has inconsistent interpretation of `Content-Length` vs. `Transfer-Encoding` differing in C and Python fallbacks

Impact

Aiohttp has a security vulnerability regarding the inconsistent interpretation of the http protocol. As we know that HTTP/1.1 is persistent, if we have both Content-Length(CL) and Transfer-Encoding(TE) it can lead to incorrect interpretation of two entities that parse the HTTP and we can poison other sockets with this incorrect interpretation.

A possible Proof-of-Concept (POC) would be a configuration with a reverse proxy(frontend) that accepts both CL and TE headers and aiohttp as backend. As aiohttp parses anything with chunked, we can pass a chunked123 as TE, the frontend entity will ignore this header and will parse Content-Length. I can give a Dockerfile with the configuration if you want.

The impact of this vulnerability is that it is possible to bypass any proxy rule, poisoning sockets to other users like passing Authentication Headers, also if it is present an Open Redirect (just like CVE-2021-21330) we can combine it to redirect random users to our website and log the request.

References

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xx9p-xxvh-7g8j
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS14eDlwLXh4dmgtN2c4as4AA3Hw
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: 6 months ago
Updated: 6 months ago


CVSS Score: 3.4
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-xx9p-xxvh-7g8j, CVE-2023-47641
References: Repository: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp
Blast Radius: 16.4

Affected Packages

pypi:aiohttp
Dependent packages: 4,004
Dependent repositories: 66,431
Downloads: 107,102,656 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 3.8.0
Fixed in: 3.8.0
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
All unaffected versions: 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, 3.9.2, 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5