HTTP request smuggling in Node.js - CVE-2019-15605

 

HTTP request smuggling in Node.js - CVE-2019-15605

Published: February 6, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25013
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15605
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 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.


Affected software

Node.js
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Opensuse
Ubuntu
Fedora
Red Hat Software Collections
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
http-parser (Red Hat package)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
nodejs (Debian package)
nodejs-current (Alpine package)
nodejs (Ubuntu package)
nodejs-dev (Ubuntu package)
nodejs-legacy (Ubuntu package)
libuv
nghttp2
libnode-dev (Ubuntu package)
libnode64 (Ubuntu package)
nodejs
Cloud App Management V2018

How to mitigate CVE-2019-15605

Install updates from vendor's website.

Node.js - addressed in versions 10.19.0, 12.15.0, 13.8.0
http-parser (Red Hat package) - update to 2.7.1-5.el7_6.1
nodejs (Debian package) - update to 10.19.0~dfsg1-1
nodejs-current (Alpine package) - update to 13.11.0-r0
Cloud App Management V2018 - update to 2020.1.0
nodejs (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
nodejs-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
nodejs-legacy (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libuv - addressed in versions 1.34.2-1.fc30, 1.34.2-1.fc31
nghttp2 - addressed in versions 1.40.0-1.fc30, 1.40.0-1.fc31
libnode-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
libnode64 (Ubuntu package) - update to 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
nodejs - addressed in versions 12.15.0-1.fc31, 12-3020200206155616.a5b0195c

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