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GHSA-V7HC-87JC-QRRR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-12-06 19:19 – Updated: 2023-12-06 19:19

Summary

eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations

Details

Impact

The eventing-github cluster-local server doesn't set ReadHeaderTimeout‬‭ which could lead do a DDoS‬ ‭attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang‬ ‭for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris‬ ‭attack.

Patches

Fix in v1.12.1 and v1.11.3

Credits

The vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "knative.dev/eventing-github"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.39.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-12-06T19:19:35Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "LOW"
  },
  "details": "### Impact\n\nThe eventing-github cluster-local server doesn\u0027t set `ReadHeaderTimeout`\u202c\u202d which could lead do a DDoS\u202c \u202dattack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang\u202c \u202dfor long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris\u202c \u202dattack.\n\n### Patches\n\nFix in `v1.12.1` and `v1.11.3`\n\n### Credits\n\nThe vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.\n",
  "id": "GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr",
  "modified": "2023-12-06T19:19:35Z",
  "published": "2023-12-06T19:19:35Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/security/advisories/GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/442"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/446"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/447"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/commit/ea5cb8b25fc3410dde45ce2eb95454e4cfe77c40"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations"
}

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