twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes     cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the     `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to     upgrade. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-21712)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes
    cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the
    `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to
    upgrade. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-21712)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-dc6dc2cfd3 advisory.

    Automatic update for python-twisted-22.4.0-1.fc37.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Thu Jun 23 2022 Robert-Andr Mauchin <zebob.m@gmail.com> 22.4.0-1
    - Update to 22.4.0 Close: rhbz#2046562 rhbz#2073115 rhbz#2060972       rhbz#2059508

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-056 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the twisted Python library when WebClient redirects via the RedirectAgent and     BrowserLikeRedirectAgent methods. This flaw allows an attacker to take advantage of these cross-origin     redirects and leak the cookie and authorization headers. (CVE-2022-21712)

    An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw was found in python-twisted in the dataReceived() function. This     flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send a simple command to use all available memory and     crash the server. (CVE-2022-21716)

    A flaw was found in python-twisted. This vulnerability occurs due to the parsing of illegal constructs in     the twisted.web.http module. The illegal constructs include '+/-' in the Content-Length header, '\n and     \t' etc. Non-conformant parsing leads to a desync if requests pass through multiple HTTP parsers. This     flaw allows a remote attacker to perform an HTTP request smuggling attack. (CVE-2022-24801)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202301-02 (Twisted: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

  - twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes     cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the     `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to     upgrade. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-21712)

  - Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 22.2.0,     Twisted SSH client and server implement is able to accept an infinite amount of data for the peer's SSH     version identifier. This ends up with a buffer using all the available memory. The attach is a simple as     `nc -rv localhost 22 < /dev/zero`. A patch is available in version 22.2.0. There are currently no known     workarounds. (CVE-2022-21716)

  - Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications. Started with version 0.9.4, when the host     header does not match a configured host `twisted.web.vhost.NameVirtualHost` will return a `NoResource`     resource which renders the Host header unescaped into the 404 response allowing HTML and script injection.
    In practice this should be very difficult to exploit as being able to modify the Host header of a normal     HTTP request implies that one is already in a privileged position. This issue was fixed in version     22.10.0rc1. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-39348)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-231 advisory.

  - twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes     cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the     `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to     upgrade. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-21712)

  - Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 22.2.0,     Twisted SSH client and server implement is able to accept an infinite amount of data for the peer's SSH     version identifier. This ends up with a buffer using all the available memory. The attach is a simple as     `nc -rv localhost 22 < /dev/zero`. A patch is available in version 22.2.0. There are currently no known     workarounds. (CVE-2022-21716)

  - Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to version     22.4.0rc1, the Twisted Web HTTP 1.1 server, located in the `twisted.web.http` module, parsed several HTTP     request constructs more leniently than permitted by RFC 7230. This non-conformant parsing can lead to     desync if requests pass through multiple HTTP parsers, potentially resulting in HTTP request smuggling.
    Users who may be affected use Twisted Web's HTTP 1.1 server and/or proxy and also pass requests through a     different HTTP server and/or proxy. The Twisted Web client is not affected. The HTTP 2.0 server uses a     different parser, so it is not affected. The issue has been addressed in Twisted 22.4.0rc1. Two     workarounds are available: Ensure any vulnerabilities in upstream proxies have been addressed, such as by     upgrading them; or filter malformed requests by other means, such as configuration of an upstream proxy.
    (CVE-2022-24801)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4074-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2022-39348: Fixed NameVirtualHost Host header injection (bsc#1204781).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5354-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Twisted incorrectly filtered HTTP headers when clients

    are being redirected to another origin. A remote attacker could use this issue

    to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21712)

    It was discovered that Twisted incorrectly processed SSH handshake data on

    connection establishments. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause

    Twisted to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21716)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0982 advisory.

    Twisted is a networking engine written in Python, supporting numerous     protocols. It contains a web server, numerous chat clients, chat servers,     mail servers and more.

    Security Fix(es):

    * SSH client and server denial of service during SSH handshake     (CVE-2022-21716)

    * Secret exposure in cross-origin redirects (CVE-2022-21712)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE     page listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0992 advisory.

    Twisted is a networking engine written in Python, supporting numerous     protocols. It contains a web server, numerous chat clients, chat servers,     mail servers and more.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Secret exposure in cross-origin redirects of python-twisted (CVE-2022-21712)
    * SSH client and server denial of service during SSH handshake     (CVE-2022-21716)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE     page listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0734-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2022-21712: Fixed secret exposure in cross-origin redirects (bsc#1195667, GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx) from

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0499-1 advisory.

  - twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes     cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the     `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to     upgrade. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-21712)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2927 advisory.

    It was discovered that Twisted, a Python event-based framework for internet applications, is affected by     HTTP request splitting vulnerabilities, and may expose sensitive data when following redirects. An     attacker may bypass validation checks and retrieve credentials. CVE-2020-10108 HTTP request splitting     vulnerability. When presented with two content-length headers, it ignored the first header. When the     second content-length value was set to zero, the request body was interpreted as a pipelined request.
    CVE-2020-10109 HTTP request splitting vulnerability. When presented with a content-length and a chunked     encoding header, the content-length took precedence and the remainder of the request body was interpreted     as a pipelined request. CVE-2022-21712 Twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following     cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twisted.web.RedirectAgent` and     `twisted.web.BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in     version 16.6.0-2+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your twisted packages. For the detailed security     status of twisted please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-     tracker.debian.org/tracker/twisted Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0499-1 advisory.

  - twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes     cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the     `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to     upgrade. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2022-21712)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
229703	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-21712	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
412974	SCA: security update for Twisted (GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
412974	SCA: security update for Twisted (GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
211340	Fedora 37 : python-twisted (2022-dc6dc2cfd3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
406713	Alpine: multiple py3-twisted packages: security update to 22.1.0-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
406713	Alpine: multiple py3-twisted packages: security update to 22.1.0-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
173089	Amazon Linux 2023 : python3-twisted, python3-twisted+tls (ALAS2023-2023-056)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
169834	GLSA-202301-02 : Twisted: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high
168547	Amazon Linux 2022 : python-twisted (ALAS2022-2022-231)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
167952	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python-Twisted (SUSE-SU-2022:4074-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical
159346	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Twisted vulnerabilities (USN-5354-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
159214	RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (python-twisted) (RHSA-2022:0982)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
159201	RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (python-twisted) (RHSA-2022:0992)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
159153	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python-Twisted (SUSE-SU-2022:0734-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
158220	openSUSE 15 Security Update : python-Twisted (openSUSE-SU-2022:0499-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
158196	Debian DLA-2927-1 : twisted - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	critical
158183	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : python-Twisted (SUSE-SU-2022:0499-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high

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