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
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/routinator/CVE-2021-43172_CVE-2021-43173_CVE-2021-43174.txt
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