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CVE-2022-31778:
Apache Traffic Server vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2022-31778 is an Improper Input Validation vulnerability discovered in Apache Traffic Server's handling of the Transfer-Encoding header. The vulnerability affects Apache Traffic Server versions from 8.0.0 to 9.0.2. This security flaw was disclosed in August 2022 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.5 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) and specifically relates to how the server handles the Transfer-Encoding header (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform cache poisoning attacks against the Apache Traffic Server. This can lead to serving malicious or incorrect content to users requesting legitimate resources (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Multiple security updates have been released to address this vulnerability. Debian has released fixes in version 8.1.5+ds-1~deb11u1 for the stable distribution (bullseye) and version 8.1.6+ds-1~deb10u1 for Debian 10 buster (Debian Advisory, Debian LTS).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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