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github.com/pires/go-proxyproto denial of service vulnerability
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 18, 2021
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Sep 14, 2023
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.
The package
github.com/pires/go-proxyprotobefore 0.5.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via theparseVersion1()function. The reader in this package is a defaultbufio.Readerwrapping anet.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.References