Overview
- Description
- A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small.
- Source
- security@golang.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.3
- Impact score
- 1.4
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "17AC9A37-6678-490D-88C2-08DE6D37F16C",
"versionEndExcluding": "1.20.12"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "F9B8295D-576D-410E-B65C-96DB303CBA5C",
"versionEndExcluding": "1.21.5",
"versionStartIncluding": "1.21.0-0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]