CVE-2021-23351
Denial of Service (DoS)
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.4 Medium
- Published
- Mar 8, 2021
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 8, 2021
Description
The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto before 0.5.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the parseVersion1() function. The reader in this package is a default bufio.Reader wrapping a net.Conn. It will read from the connection until it finds a newline. Since no limits are implemented in the code, a deliberately malformed V1 header could be used to exhaust memory in a server process using this code - and create a DoS. This can be exploited by sending a stream starting with PROXY and continuing to send data (which does not contain a newline) until the target stops acknowledging. The risk here is small, because only trusted sources should be allowed to send proxy protocol headers.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | snyk |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
github.com/pires/go-proxyproton/a |
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References
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMPIRESGOPROXYPROTO-1081577
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/pull/71
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/issues/69
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/commit/7f48261db810703d173f27f3309a808cc2b49b8b
- FEDORA-2021-e01c1fe4ccvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2021-f5fcd9b0c1vendor-advisory
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