Possible request smuggling in HTTP/2 due missing validation
### Impact If a Content-Length header is present in the original HTTP/2 request, the field is not validated by `Http2MultiplexHandler` as it is propagated up. This is fine as long as the request is not proxied through as HTTP/1.1. If the request comes in as an HTTP/2 stream, gets converted into the HTTP/1.1 domain objects (`HttpRequest`, `HttpContent`, etc.) via `Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec `and then sent up to the child channel's pipeline and proxied through a remote peer as HTTP/1.1 this may result in request smuggling. In a proxy case, users may assume the content-length is validated somehow, which is not the case. If the request is forwarded to a backend channel that is a HTTP/1.1 connection, the Content-Length now has meaning and needs to be checked. An attacker can smuggle requests inside the body as it gets downgraded from HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1. A sample attack request looks like: ``` POST / HTTP/2 :authority:: externaldomain.com Content-Length: 4 asdfGET /evilRedirect HTTP/1.1 Host: internaldomain.com ``` Users are only affected if all of this is `true`: * `HTTP2MultiplexCodec` or `Http2FrameCodec` is used * `Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec` is used to convert to HTTP/1.1 objects * These HTTP/1.1 objects are forwarded to another remote peer. ### Patches This has been patched in 4.1.60.Final ### Workarounds The user can do the validation by themselves by implementing a custom `ChannelInboundHandler` that is put in the `ChannelPipeline` behind `Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec`. ### References Related change to workaround the problem: https://github.com/Netflix/zuul/pull/980
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Zugehörige CVEs.
| ID | Schweregrad | ausnutzbar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-21295US | medium5.9 | — | ||
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Referenzen
Externe Belege — Patches, Meldungen, Analysen.
- https://github.com/Netflix/zuul/pull/980WEB
- https://github.com/netty/nettyPACKAGE
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/89c241e3b1795ff257af4ad6eadc616cb2fb3dc4WEB
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-wm47-8v5p-wjpjWEB
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r02e467123d45006a1dda20a38349e9c74c3a4b53e2e07be0939ecb3f@%3Cdev.ranger.apache.org%3EWEB
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r040a5e4d9cca2f98354b58a70b27099672276f66995c4e2e39545d0b@%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3EWEB
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r04a3e0d9f53421fb946c60cc54762b7151dc692eb4e39970a7579052@%3Ccommits.servicecomb.apache.org%3EWEB
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0b09f3e31e004fe583f677f7afa46bd30110904576c13c5ac818ac2c@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3EWEB
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