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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsnyk

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
github.com/pires/go-proxyproton/a
  • before 0.5.0Affected

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