Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting golang.org/x/net/http2 package, versions <0.17.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GOLANGORGXNETHTTP2-5958903
  • published 27 Nov 2023
  • disclosed 10 Oct 2023
  • credit Damien Neil

How to fix?

Upgrade golang.org/x/net/http2 to version 0.17.0 or higher.

Overview

golang.org/x/net/http2 is a work-in-progress HTTP/2 implementation for Go.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling when MaxConcurrentStreams handler goroutines running, by rapidly creating requests and immediately resetting them. A a handler is started until one of the existing handlers exits.

Note:

This issue is related to CVE-2023-44487

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
8.7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None