SB2020042404 - Amazon Linux AMI update for http-parser
Published: April 24, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12121)
CWE-ID: CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer overflow. A remote attacker can send many requests with the maximum size HTTP header of nearly 80kb/connection in combination with carefully handled completion of those headers, trigger memory corruption and cause the Node.js HTTP server to abort.
2) HTTP response splitting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7159)
CWE-ID: CWE-113 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to write arbitrary files on the target system.
The weakness exists due to spaces in Content-Length HTTP headers from Node.js’s HTTP module entirely ignore spaces within the value, despite the HTTP specification not allowing spaces within the values. A remote attacker can confuse the script and write arbitrary files.
3) HTTP request smuggling (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15605)
CWE-ID: CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of Transfer-Encoding header. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the application and perform a request smuggling attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.