356
VMScore

CVE-2021-23351

Published: 08/03/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.2
VMScore: 356
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #985025 golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto: CVE-2021-23351 Package: src:golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto; Maintainer for src:golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto is Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2 ...