GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2
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https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/01/GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2/GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2.json
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Published
2024-01-29T22:30:07Z
Modified
2024-09-04T20:05:21.242565Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
aiohttp's HTTP parser (the python one, not llhttp) still overly lenient about separators
Details

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/1ö1 GET / HTTP/1.𝟙 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

Database specific 
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-01-29T23:15:08Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-444"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-01-29T22:30:07Z"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / aiohttp

Package

Name
aiohttp
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Purl
pkg:pypi/aiohttp

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.9.2

Affected versions

0.*

0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
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
0.22.0a0
0.22.0b0
0.22.0b1
0.22.0b2
0.22.0b3
0.22.0b4
0.22.0b5
0.22.0b6
0.22.0
0.22.1
0.22.2
0.22.3
0.22.4
0.22.5

1.*

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.*

2.0.0rc1
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
2.3.0a1
2.3.0a2
2.3.0a3
2.3.0a4
2.3.0
2.3.1a1
2.3.1
2.3.2b2
2.3.2b3
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.*

3.0.0b0
3.0.0b1
3.0.0b2
3.0.0b3
3.0.0b4
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
3.3.0a0
3.3.0
3.3.1
3.3.2a0
3.3.2
3.4.0a0
3.4.0a3
3.4.0b1
3.4.0b2
3.4.0
3.4.1
3.4.2
3.4.3
3.4.4
3.5.0a1
3.5.0b1
3.5.0b2
3.5.0b3
3.5.0
3.5.1
3.5.2
3.5.3
3.5.4
3.6.0a0
3.6.0a1
3.6.0a2
3.6.0a3
3.6.0a4
3.6.0a5
3.6.0a6
3.6.0a7
3.6.0a8
3.6.0a9
3.6.0a11
3.6.0a12
3.6.0b0
3.6.0
3.6.1b3
3.6.1b4
3.6.1
3.6.2a0
3.6.2a1
3.6.2a2
3.6.2
3.6.3
3.7.0b0
3.7.0b1
3.7.0
3.7.1
3.7.2
3.7.3
3.7.4
3.7.4.post0
3.8.0a7
3.8.0b0
3.8.0
3.8.1
3.8.2
3.8.3
3.8.4
3.8.5
3.8.6
3.9.0b0
3.9.0b1
3.9.0rc0
3.9.0
3.9.1