Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) Affecting external-secrets-operator package, versions <0.15.0-r1


Severity

Recommended
low

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-EXTERNALSECRETSOPERATOR-9511545
  • published24 Mar 2025
  • disclosed21 Mar 2025

Introduced: 21 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2025-30204  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-405  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard external-secrets-operator to version 0.15.0-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream external-secrets-operator package and not the external-secrets-operator package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

golang-jwt is a Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens. Prior to 5.2.2 and 4.5.2, the function parse.ParseUnverified splits (via a call to strings.Split) its argument (which is untrusted data) on periods. As a result, in the face of a malicious request whose Authorization header consists of Bearer followed by many period characters, a call to that function incurs allocations to the tune of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function's argument), with a constant factor of about 16. This issue is fixed in 5.2.2 and 4.5.2.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1