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HistoryMar 08, 2021 - 5:15 a.m.

CVE-2021-23351

2021-03-0805:15:12
Google
osv.dev
8
github.com/pires/go-proxyproto
dos vulnerability
parseversion1()
net.conn
bufio.reader
denial of service
memory exhaustion

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

51.7%

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.

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

51.7%