SB2021120804 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache Traffic Server
Published: December 8, 2021
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37147)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to preform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
2) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37148)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to preform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
3) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37149)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to preform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
4) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41585)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when processing HTTP connections. A remote attacker can force the server to stop accepting new connections and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43082)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the stats-over-http plugin. A remote attacker can send specially crafted traffic to he server, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
6) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38161)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper verification of TLS origin. A remote attacker can intercept and decrypt traffic from clients.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.