CVE-2020-28473

Publication date 18 January 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.8 · Medium

Score breakdown

The package bottle from 0 and before 0.12.19 are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-bottle 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.12.15-2.1ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.12.13-1ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
python-bottle

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.8 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H