Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1000164 - CRLF Injection vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
gunicorn version 19.4.5 contains a CWE-113: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers vulnerability in "process_headers" function in "gunicorn/http/wsgi.py" that can result in an attacker causing the server to return arbitrary HTTP headers. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 19.5.0.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Command Delimiters An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that allows an attacker's commands to be concatenated onto a legitimate command with the intent of targeting other resources such as the file system or database. The system that uses a filter or a blacklist input validation, as opposed to whitelist validation is vulnerable to an attacker who predicts delimiters (or combinations of delimiters) not present in the filter or blacklist. As with other injection attacks, the attacker uses the command delimiter payload as an entry point to tunnel through the application and activate additional attacks through SQL queries, shell commands, network scanning, and so on.
- Web Logs Tampering Web Logs Tampering attacks involve an attacker injecting, deleting or otherwise tampering with the contents of web logs typically for the purposes of masking other malicious behavior. Additionally, writing malicious data to log files may target jobs, filters, reports, and other agents that process the logs in an asynchronous attack pattern. This pattern of attack is similar to "Log Injection-Tampering-Forging" except that in this case, the attack is targeting the logs of the web server and not the application.
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-369.NASL description This update for python-gunicorn, python3-gunicorn fixes the following issues : - CVE-2018-1000164: Improper neutralization of CRLF Sequences allow tricking the server to return arbitrary HTTP headers (boo#1088613) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-04-17 plugin id 109068 published 2018-04-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109068 title openSUSE Security Update : python-gunicorn / python3-gunicorn (openSUSE-2018-369) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2018-369. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(109068); script_version("1.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1000164"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : python-gunicorn / python3-gunicorn (openSUSE-2018-369)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2018-369 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for python-gunicorn, python3-gunicorn fixes the following issues : - CVE-2018-1000164: Improper neutralization of CRLF Sequences allow tricking the server to return arbitrary HTTP headers (boo#1088613)" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088613" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected python-gunicorn / python3-gunicorn packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/17"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.3", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"python-gunicorn-19.3.0-4.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"python3-gunicorn-19.3.0-5.3.1") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python-gunicorn / python3-gunicorn"); }
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_A3E24DE73F0C11E987D100012E582166.NASL description Everardo reports : gunicorn version 19.4.5 contains a CWE-113: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers vulnerability in process_headers function in gunicorn/http/wsgi.py that can result in an attacker causing the server to return arbitrary HTTP headers. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 122605 published 2019-03-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122605 title FreeBSD : py-gunicorn -- CWE-113 vulnerability (a3e24de7-3f0c-11e9-87d1-00012e582166) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(122605); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/06"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1000164"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : py-gunicorn -- CWE-113 vulnerability (a3e24de7-3f0c-11e9-87d1-00012e582166)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Everardo reports : gunicorn version 19.4.5 contains a CWE-113: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers vulnerability in process_headers function in gunicorn/http/wsgi.py that can result in an attacker causing the server to return arbitrary HTTP headers." ); # https://epadillas.github.io/2018/04/02/http-header-splitting-in-gunicorn-19.4.5 script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?6ab7fbef" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/a3e24de7-3f0c-11e9-87d1-00012e582166.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ff0e5f8e" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py27-gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py35-gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py36-gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py37-gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/04/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/03/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/03/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py27-gunicorn<19.5.0")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py35-gunicorn<19.5.0")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py36-gunicorn<19.5.0")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py37-gunicorn<19.5.0")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1357.NASL description It was discovered that there was an issue in the gunicorn HTTP server for Python applicatons where CRLF sequences could result in an attacker tricking the server into returning arbitrary headers. For more information and background, please see : https://epadillas.github.io/2018/04/02/http-header-splitting-in-gunico rn-19.4.5 For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2018-04-23 plugin id 109217 published 2018-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109217 title Debian DLA-1357-1 : gunicorn security update code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1357-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(109217); script_version("1.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1000164"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1357-1 : gunicorn security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that there was an issue in the gunicorn HTTP server for Python applicatons where CRLF sequences could result in an attacker tricking the server into returning arbitrary headers. For more information and background, please see : https://epadillas.github.io/2018/04/02/http-header-splitting-in-gunico rn-19.4.5 For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in gunicorn version 0.14.5-3+deb7u2. We recommend that you upgrade your gunicorn packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); # https://epadillas.github.io/2018/04/02/http-header-splitting-in-gunicorn-19.4.5 script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?6ab7fbef" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00022.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/gunicorn" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected gunicorn package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/23"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"gunicorn", reference:"0.14.5-3+deb7u2")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4186.NASL description It was discovered that gunicorn, an event-based HTTP/WSGI server was susceptible to HTTP Response splitting. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109415 published 2018-04-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109415 title Debian DSA-4186-1 : gunicorn - security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4186. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(109415); script_version("1.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/13 12:30:47"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1000164"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4186"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4186-1 : gunicorn - security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that gunicorn, an event-based HTTP/WSGI server was susceptible to HTTP Response splitting." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gunicorn" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/gunicorn" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4186" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the gunicorn packages. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 19.0-1+deb8u1." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gunicorn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/30"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"gunicorn", reference:"19.0-1+deb8u1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4022-1.NASL description It was discovered that gunicorn improperly handled certain input. An attacker could potentially use this issue execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 126067 published 2019-06-20 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126067 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Gunicorn vulnerability (USN-4022-1)
References
- https://epadillas.github.io/2018/04/02/http-header-splitting-in-gunicorn-19.4.5
- https://epadillas.github.io/2018/04/02/http-header-splitting-in-gunicorn-19.4.5
- https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/1227
- https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/1227
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00022.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00022.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4022-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4022-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4186
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4186