CVE-2023-37475

HIGH

hamba/avro < 2.13.0 - Denial of Service via Unmarshal Memory Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Hamba avro is a go lang encoder/decoder implementation of the avro codec specification. In affected versions a well-crafted string passed to avro's `github.com/hamba/avro/v2.Unmarshal()` can throw a `fatal error: runtime: out of memory` which is unrecoverable and can cause denial of service of the consumer of avro. The root cause of the issue is that avro uses part of the input to `Unmarshal()` to determine the size when creating a new slice and hence an attacker may consume arbitrary amounts of memory which in turn may cause the application to crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `b4a402f4` which has been included in release version `2.13.0`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0080
EPSS Percentile 51.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
avro_project/avro < 2.13.0
hamba/avro 0 - 2.13.0 (2 CPE variants)Go
Published Jul 17, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026