CVE-2023-47641

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HTTP/1.1 es un protocolo persistente, si los valores de encabezado Content-Length (CL) y Transfer-Encoding (TE) est\u00e1n presentes, puede llevar a una interpretaci\u00f3n incorrecta de dos entidades que analizan HTTP y podemos envenenar otros sockets con esta interpretaci\u00f3n incorrecta. Una posible Proof-of-Concept (POC) ser\u00eda una configuraci\u00f3n con un proxy inverso (frontend) que acepte encabezados CL y TE y aiohttp como backend. Como aiohttp analiza cualquier cosa con fragmentos, podemos pasar un fragmento123 como TE, la entidad de interfaz ignorar\u00e1 este encabezado y analizar\u00e1 la longitud del contenido. El impacto de esta vulnerabilidad es que es posible eludir cualquier regla de proxy, envenenando los sockets de otros usuarios, como pasar encabezados de autenticaci\u00f3n. Adem\u00e1s, si est\u00e1 presente un redireccionamiento abierto, un atacante podr\u00eda combinarlo para redirigir a usuarios aleatorios a otro sitio web y registrar la solicitud. Esta vulnerabilidad se solucion\u00f3 en la versi\u00f3n 3.8.0 de aiohttp. Se recomienda a los usuarios que actualicen. 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