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TI-2022-26660 Aliases GHSA-8r99-h8j2-rw64

Twisted vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling Attacks

Priority LOW 38Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
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Privileges required
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User interaction
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Attack complexity
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Impact type
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Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.

Summary

### Impact Twisted Web is vulnerable to request smuggling attacks: 1. "When presented with two content-length headers, Twisted Web ignored the first header. When the second content-length was set to zero this caused Twisted Web to interpret the request body as a pipelined request. According to RFC 7230 Section 3.3.3#4, if a message is received with multiple content-length headers with differing value, then the server must reject the message with a 400 response." (Jake Miller of Bishop Fox Security) 2. " When presented with a content-length and a chunked encoding header, the content-length took precedence and the remainder of the request body was interpreted by Twisted Web as a pipelined request. According to RFC 7230 Section 3.3.3#3, if a message with both content-length and chunked encoding is accepted, transfer-encoding overrides the content-length." (Jake Miller of Bishop Fox Security) 3. ~"Twisted should not allow BWS between the filed-name and colon." (ZeddYu Lu)~ _closed in 9646_ 4. "Two CL header with different values is also not allowed." (ZeddYu Lu) 5. "Only accept identity and chunked Transport-Encoding." (ZeddYu Lu) ### Patches https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/20c787a14a09e7cbd5dfd8df08ceff00d1fcc081 https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/4a7d22e490bb8ff836892cc99a1f54b85ccb0281 ### Workarounds N/A ### References https://portswigger.net/web-security/request-smuggling

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed twisted (PyPI): 20.3.0

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—twisted (PyPI)before 20.3.020.3.0Patch availableGHSA-8r99-h8j2-rw64
  • twisted (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 20.3.0 Fixed in 20.3.0 Patch available GHSA-8r99-h8j2-rw64

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-8r99-h8j2-rw64 twisted (PyPI) Fixed in 20.3.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-8r99-h8j2-rw64

References

Sources

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