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GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj

GitHub Security Advisory

Waitress has request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with invalid first request

✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact

A remote client may send a request that is exactly `recv_bytes` (defaults to 8192) long, followed by a secondary request using HTTP pipelining.

When request lookahead is disabled (default) we won't read any more requests, and when the first request fails due to a parsing error, we simply close the connection.

However when request lookahead is enabled, it is possible to process and receive the first request, start sending the error message back to the client while we read the next request and queue it. This will allow the secondary request to be serviced by the worker thread while the connection should be closed.

### Patches

Waitress 3.0.1 fixes the race condition.

### Workarounds

Disable `channel_request_lookahead`, this is set to `0` by default disabling this feature. For this vulnerability this value is required to be changed from the default.

### For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Open an issue in https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues (if not sensitive or security related)
* email the Pylons Security mailing list: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (if security related)

### Thanks

- m4yfly and urn1ce From TianGong Team of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group.

Affected Packages

PyPI waitress
Affected versions: 2.0.0 (fixed in 3.0.1)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-9298-4cf8-g4wj
Published
October 29, 2024 2:45 PM
Last Modified
January 21, 2025 5:53 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
PyPI
Primary Package
waitress
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 9, 2025 6:37 AM

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