Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests in eventlet - CVE-2025-58068

 

Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests in eventlet - CVE-2025-58068

Published: September 9, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU115001
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-58068
CWE-ID: CWE-444
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests within the WSGI parser. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.

Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.


Affected software

eventlet
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Python 3 Module
SUSE Package Hub 15
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Ubuntu
Anolis OS
PowerVC
IBM Maximo Application Suite
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
python-eventlet (Ubuntu package)
python2-eventlet
python3-eventlet
python-eventlet
python-eventlet-help
python-eventlet (Red Hat package)
python3-eventlet-doc
python311-eventlet
Maximo Application Suite - IoT Component

How to mitigate CVE-2025-58068

Install updates from vendor's website.

eventlet - update to 0.40.3
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.20.11
IBM Maximo Application Suite - addressed in versions 8.10.30, 8.11.27, 9.0.16, 9.1.5
python-eventlet (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.25.1-2ubuntu1.1+esm2, 0.30.2-5ubuntu2.2, 0.35.2-0ubuntu1.1, 0.39.0-0ubuntu1.1
python2-eventlet - update to 0.26.1-150300.3.3.1
python3-eventlet - update to 0.26.1-150300.3.3.1
python-eventlet - addressed in versions 0.30.2-3, 0.33.0-3, 0.33.3-3
python-eventlet-help - addressed in versions 0.30.2-3, 0.33.0-3, 0.33.3-3
python3-eventlet - addressed in versions 0.30.2-3, 0.33.0-3, 0.33.3-3
python-eventlet (Red Hat package) - update to 0.33.1-7.el9ost
python3-eventlet-doc - update to 0.33.3-3
python3-eventlet - update to 0.33.3-3
python311-eventlet - update to 0.33.3-150400.5.6.1
Maximo Application Suite - IoT Component - addressed in versions 8.7.26, 8.8.22, 9.0.12, 9.1.3

External References

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