CVE-2021-43174

HIGH

NLnet Labs Routinator <0.10.1 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

NLnet Labs Routinator versions 0.9.0 up to and including 0.10.1, support the gzip transfer encoding when querying RRDP repositories. This encoding can be used by an RRDP repository to cause an out-of-memory crash in these versions of Routinator. RRDP uses XML which allows arbitrary amounts of white space in the encoded data. The gzip scheme compresses such white space extremely well, leading to very small compressed files that become huge when being decompressed for further processing, big enough that Routinator runs out of memory when parsing input data waiting for the next XML element.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5041

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0117
EPSS Percentile 63.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-1325 CWE-787
Status published
Products (3)
crates.io/routinator 0.9.0 - 0.10.2crates.io
debian/debian_linux 11.0
nlnetlabs/routinator 0.9.0 - 0.10.2
Published Nov 09, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026