CVE-2021-23351 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/issues/69 https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/commit/7f48261db810703d173f27f3309a808cc2b49b8b https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/pull/71 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMPIRESGOPROXYPROTO-1081577 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BNVGJMVI3ZTZ675EFPUHPGXCKCGSX46/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C36IBVOZXRTWM7MGTRUTOM56P5RR74VU/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

4.9