pires/go-proxyproto · Security

github.com/pires/go-proxyproto vulnerable to DoS via Connection descriptor exhaustion

GHSA ID
GHSA-xcf7-q56x-78gh
CVE ID
CVE-2021-23409
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto before 0.6.1 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via creating connections without the proxy protocol header. While this issue was patched in 0.6.0, the fix introduced additional issues which were subsequently patched in 0.6.1.

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