CPANSA-HTTP-Daemon-2022-31081: HTTP-Daemon vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2022-06-27T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2022-06-27T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.3 Severity Medium
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

HTTP::Daemon is a simple http server class written in perl. Versions prior to 6.15 are subject to a vulnerability which could potentially be exploited to gain privileged access to APIs or poison intermediate caches. It is uncertain how large the risks are, most Perl based applications are served on top of Nginx or Apache, not on the `HTTP::Daemon`. This library is commonly used for local development and tests. Users are advised to update to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade may add additional request handling logic as a mitigation. After calling `my $rqst = $conn->get_request()` one could inspect the returned `HTTP::Request` object. Querying the 'Content-Length' (`my $cl = $rqst->header('Content-Length')`) will show any abnormalities that should be dealt with by a `400` response. Expected strings of 'Content-Length' SHOULD consist of either a single non-negative integer, or, a comma separated repetition of that number. (that is `42` or `42, 42, 42`). Anything else MUST be rejected.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-31081

Vulnerability Description

HTTP::Daemon is a simple http server class written in perl. Versions prior to 6.15 are subject to a vulnerability which could potentially be exploited to gain privileged access to APIs or poison intermediate caches. It is uncertain how large the risks are, most Perl based applications are served on top of Nginx or Apache, not on the `HTTP::Daemon`. This library is commonly used for local development and tests. Users are advised to update to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade may add additional request handling logic as a mitigation. After calling `my $rqst = $conn->get_request()` one could inspect the returned `HTTP::Request` object. Querying the 'Content-Length' (`my $cl = $rqst->header('Content-Length')`) will show any abnormalities that should be dealt with by a `400` response. Expected strings of 'Content-Length' SHOULD consist of either a single non-negative integer, or, a comma separated repetition of that number. (that is `42` or `42, 42, 42`). Anything else MUST be rejected.

Weakness CWE-444 : Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
HTTP-Daemon less than 6.15
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L 7.3 High
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N 6.4 Medium
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 2022 First release

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