Medium severity · published Mar 8, 2021
CVE-2021-23351
Denial of Service (DoS)
4.9
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
github.com/pires/go-proxyproto ·
before 0.5.0 · source: vendor
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33; 34 · source: NVD
GO
Go-proxyproto · Go-proxyproto Project
before 0.5.0 · source: NVD