GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr

    GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr

    Published: 6 Dec 2023Last Modified: 21 Aug 2024
    Aliases:
    GO-2023-2388

    Summary: eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations

    Details: ### Impact The eventing-github cluster-local server doesn't set `ReadHeaderTimeout`‬‭ which could lead do a DDoS‬ ‭attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang‬ ‭for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris‬ ‭attack. ### Patches Fix in `v1.12.1` and `v1.11.3` ### Credits The vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.

    References: https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/security/advisories/GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr, https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/442, https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/446, https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/447, https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/commit/ea5cb8b25fc3410dde45ce2eb95454e4cfe77c40, https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: knative.dev/eventing-github

    Purl: pkg:golang/knative.dev/eventing-github

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.39.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr | CVE-DB