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CVE-2023-39326 (GCVE-0-2023-39326)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-06 16:27 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:02
VLAI
Title
Denial of service via chunk extensions in net/http
Summary
A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library net/http/internal Affected: 0 , < 1.20.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.21.0-0 , < 1.21.5 (semver)
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Credits
Bartek Nowotarski
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