CVE-2023-47641

NameCVE-2023-47641
Descriptionaiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Affected versions of aiohttp have a security vulnerability regarding the inconsistent interpretation of the http protocol. HTTP/1.1 is a persistent protocol, if both Content-Length(CL) and Transfer-Encoding(TE) header values are present 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. 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 an attacker could combine it to redirect random users to another website and log the request. This vulnerability has been addressed in release 3.8.0 of aiohttp. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
python-aiohttp (PTS)stretch1.2.0-1vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)3.5.1-1+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye3.7.4-1vulnerable
bookworm3.8.4-1fixed
sid, trixie3.10.10-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-aiohttpsourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
python-aiohttpsource(unstable)3.8.1-1

Notes

[bullseye] - python-aiohttp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - python-aiohttp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-xx9p-xxvh-7g8j
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/f016f0680e4ace6742b03a70cb0382ce86abe371 (v3.8.0b0)

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