Description
Waitress version 1.4.2 allows a DOS attack When waitress receives a header that contains invalid characters. When a header like "Bad-header: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\x10" is received, it will cause the regular expression engine to catastrophically backtrack causing the process to use 100% CPU time and blocking any other interactions. This allows an attacker to send a single request with an invalid header and take the service offline. This issue was introduced in version 1.4.2 when the regular expression was updated to attempt to match the behaviour required by errata associated with RFC7230. The regular expression that is used to validate incoming headers has been updated in version 1.4.3, it is recommended that people upgrade to the new version of Waitress as soon as possible.
Published: 2020-02-04
Score: 5.7 Medium
EPSS: 13.9% Moderate
KEV: No
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-73m2-3pwg-5fgc Catastrophic backtracking in regex allows Denial of Service in Waitress
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Agendaless Waitress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2024-08-04T08:22:09.008Z

Reserved: 2020-01-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-5236

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-02-04T03:15:10.750

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:33:44.180

Link: CVE-2020-5236

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-02-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-5236 - Bugzilla

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