CVE-2023-37276 aiohttp vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling

2023-07-1919:39:19

CWE-444

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

aiohttp

http request smuggling

vulnerability

v3.8.5

asyncio

python

llhttp

upgrade

http server

clientsession

http client library

5.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

49.4%

JSON

aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. aiohttp v3.8.4 and earlier are bundled with llhttp v6.0.6. Vulnerable code is used by aiohttp for its HTTP request parser when available which is the default case when installing from a wheel. This vulnerability only affects users of aiohttp as an HTTP server (ie aiohttp.Application), you are not affected by this vulnerability if you are using aiohttp as an HTTP client library (ie aiohttp.ClientSession). Sending a crafted HTTP request will cause the server to misinterpret one of the HTTP header values leading to HTTP request smuggling. This issue has been addressed in version 3.8.5. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade can reinstall aiohttp using AIOHTTP_NO_EXTENSIONS=1 as an environment variable to disable the llhttp HTTP request parser implementation. The pure Python implementation isn’t vulnerable.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "aio-libs",
    "product": "aiohttp",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 3.8.5",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]