CVE-2023-39326
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
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.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.12%• Percentile: 31%
Affected Systems
- go standard library•net/http/internal
< 1.20.12 | ≥ 1.21.0-0, < 1.21.5
- golang•go
< 1.20.12 | ≥ 1.21.0-0, < 1.21.5
- Go•stdlib
≥ 1.21.0-0, < 1.21.5