CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-38114 — This vulnerability occurs when a web server fails to correctly process the Content-Length of POST requests

Medium CVSS 6.1

This vulnerability occurs when a web server fails to correctly process the Content-Length of POST requests. This can lead to HTTP request smuggling or XSS.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.1 (3.1)
Published
2022-11-23
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-79, CWE-444

Affected products

  • solarwinds / security_event_manager

Matched remediation archetype

HTTP request smuggling and message-boundary ambiguity

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Check exposure

  • Inventory every proxy, CDN, gateway, load balancer, service mesh, and application server hop on affected request paths.
  • Compare documented parsing and normalization behavior for message length, transfer coding, duplicate headers, and protocol translation.
  • Identify connection reuse and which downstream services trust headers added by intermediaries.

Remediate safely

  • Update affected intermediaries and origin servers and align them on a single standards-compliant request framing policy.
  • Reject ambiguous length, transfer-coding, duplicate, malformed, and unsupported framing before forwarding.
  • Normalize or remove hop-by-hop and identity headers at one controlled boundary and add multi-hop regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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