CVE-2021-23351

MEDIUM

go-proxyproto < 0.5.0 - Denial of Service via parseVersion1() Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

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