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.
{ "nvd_published_at": null, "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-400" ], "severity": "MODERATE", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2021-05-18T21:03:39Z" }