GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2 aiohttp's HTTP parser (the python one, not llhttp) still overly lenient about separators
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-23829
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- aiohttp
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-444
- Reviewed
- 2024-01-29
Affected packages
• PyPI aiohttp: < 3.9.2 → fixed in 3.9.2
Description
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.
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Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/8074/files
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-23829 aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness
References
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-8qpw-xqxj-h4r2 web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-gfw2-4jvh-wgfg web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23829 advisory
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/3235 web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/8074 web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/8074/files web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/33ccdfb0a12690af5bb49bda2319ec0907fa7827 web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/aiohttp/PYSEC-2024-26.yaml web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00002.html web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ICUOCFGTB25WUT336BZ4UNYLSZOUVKBD web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XXWVZIVAYWEBHNRIILZVB3R3SDQNNAA7 web