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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2021-37148
CVE-2021-37148:
Apache Traffic Server vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
Improper input validation vulnerability in header parsing of Apache Traffic Server (CVE-2021-37148) allows an attacker to smuggle requests. This vulnerability affects Apache Traffic Server versions 8.0.0 to 8.1.2 and 9.0.0 to 9.0.1. The vulnerability was discovered and reported in July 2021 (CVE List).
Technical details
The vulnerability specifically relates to transfer encoding validation in the header parsing functionality of Apache Traffic Server. This security flaw could enable request smuggling attacks due to improper validation of input (Debian Security).
Impact
The vulnerability could allow attackers to perform request smuggling attacks, which could potentially lead to security bypasses, cache poisoning, or unauthorized access to protected resources (NVD Database).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been addressed in multiple releases. For Debian distributions, fixes were released in version 8.0.2+ds-1+deb10u6 for oldstable (buster) and version 8.1.1+ds-1.1+deb11u1 for stable (bullseye) distributions (Debian Security).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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