CVE-2023-47124 (GCVE-0-2023-47124)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-04 20:20 – Updated: 2024-12-18 14:12
VLAI
Title
Denial of service whith ACME HTTPChallenge in Traefik
Summary
Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. When Traefik is configured to use the `HTTPChallenge` to generate and renew the Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, the delay authorized to solve the challenge (50 seconds) can be exploited by attackers to achieve a `slowloris attack`. This vulnerability has been patch in version 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should replace the `HTTPChallenge` with the `TLSChallenge` or the `DNSChallenge`.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7674 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
traefik traefik Affected: < 2.10.6
Affected: >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.0.0-beta5
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