CVE-2022-41717

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.3 · Resource exhaustion

5.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately 64 MiB per open connection.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactNone

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactLow

Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

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

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://go.dev/cl/455635 ↗

Additional information

NVD record
https://go.dev/cl/455635Patch
https://go.dev/cl/455717Patch
https://go.dev/issue/56350Patch
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/L_3rmdT0BMU/m/yZDrXjIiBQAJAdvisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BUK2ZIAGCULOOYDNH25JPU6JBES5NF2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4SBIUECMLNC572P23DDOKJNKPJVX26SP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/56B2FFESRYYP6IY2AZ3UWXLWKZ5IYZN4/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5RSKA2II6QTD4YUKUNDVJQSRYSFC4VFR/