CVE-2021-23351
MEDIUMgo-proxyproto < 0.5.0 - Denial of Service via parseVersion1() Function
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMPIRESGOPROXYPROTO-1081577
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/pull/71
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/issues/69
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/commit/7f48261db810703d173f27f3309a808cc2b49b8b
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BNVGJMVI3ZTZ675EFPUHPGXCKCGSX46/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C36IBVOZXRTWM7MGTRUTOM56P5RR74VU/
Scores
CVSS v3
4.4
EPSS
0.0187
EPSS Percentile
76.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora
33
fedoraproject/fedora
34
go-proxyproto_project/go-proxyproto
< 0.5.0
pires/go-proxyproto
0 - 0.5.0Go
Published
Mar 08, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026