low

AWS API Gateway HTTP header smuggling

Published Wed, Nov 10th, 2021

Platforms

aws

Summary

A flaw in AWS API Gateway enabled hiding HTTP request headers. Tampering with HTTP requests visibility enabled bypassing IP restrictions, cache poisoning and request smuggling.

Affected Services

API Gateway

Remediation

None required

Tracked CVEs

No tracked CVEs

References

Contributed by https://github.com/a10ns

Entry Status

Finalized

Disclosure Date

Wed, Nov 10th, 2021

Exploitability Period

-

Known ITW Exploitation

-

Detection Methods

None

Piercing Index Rating

-

Discovered by

Daniel Thatcher, intruder