# HTTP Request Smuggling in Waitress: Invalid whitespace characters in headers (Follow-up)

Advisory record · `GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74` · `CVE-2019-16789` · `PYSEC-2019-138`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.1 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-444](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/444.html)
- **Tags:** [HTTP request smuggling](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/request-smuggling.md)
- **Published:** 6 Jan 2020
- **Updated:** 19 Nov 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 6 Jan 2020, 18:44 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `waitress` (PyPI): affected `<1.4.2`; fixed in `1.4.2`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.1 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.026, the 85th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 6 Jan 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74)
- [OSV: GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74)
- <https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16789>
- <https://github.com/github/advisory-review/pull/14604>
- <https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/11d9e138125ad46e951027184b13242a3c1de017>
- <https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/ddb65b489d01d696afa1695b75fdd5df3e4ffdf8>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0720>
- <https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/#security-fixes>
- <https://github.com/Pylons/waitress>
- <https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74>
- <https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/waitress/PYSEC-2019-138.yaml>
- <https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00011.html>
- <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GVDHR2DNKCNQ7YQXISJ45NT4IQDX3LJ7>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-968f-66r5-5v74>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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