Skip to content

JSON Content-Type parsing confusion

Moderate
mcollina published GHSA-v2v2-hph8-q5xp Jan 8, 2024

Package

npm @fastify/reply-from (npm)

Affected versions

< 9.6.0

Patched versions

>= 9.6.0

Description

Impact

The main repo of fastify use fast-content-type-parse to parse request Content-Type, which will trim after split.

The fastify-reply-from have not use this repo to unify the parse of Content-Type, which won't trim.

As a result, a reverse proxy server built with @fastify/reply-from could misinterpret the incoming body by passing an header ContentType: application/json ; charset=utf-8. This can lead to bypass of security checks.

Patches

@fastify/reply-from v9.6.0 include the fix.

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds.

References

Hackerone Report: https://hackerone.com/reports/2295770.

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2023-51701

Weaknesses

Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

The product acts as an intermediary HTTP agent (such as a proxy or firewall) in the data flow between two entities such as a client and server, but it does not interpret malformed HTTP requests or responses in ways that are consistent with how the messages will be processed by those entities that are at the ultimate destination. Learn more on MITRE.

Credits