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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting conmon package, versions <2:2.0.26-3.module+el8.7.0+20785+0180d035

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.47% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE8-CONMON-2831089
  • published 18 May 2022
  • disclosed 15 Feb 2022
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Introduced: 15 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-21698 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 conmon to version 2:2.0.26-3.module+el8.7.0+20785+0180d035 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2022-7529.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream conmon package and not the conmon package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

client_golang is the instrumentation library for Go applications in Prometheus, and the promhttp package in client_golang provides tooling around HTTP servers and clients. In client_golang prior to version 1.11.1, HTTP server is susceptible to a Denial of Service through unbounded cardinality, and potential memory exhaustion, when handling requests with non-standard HTTP methods. In order to be affected, an instrumented software must use any of promhttp.InstrumentHandler* middleware except RequestsInFlight; not filter any specific methods (e.g GET) before middleware; pass metric with method label name to our middleware; and not have any firewall/LB/proxy that filters away requests with unknown method. client_golang version 1.11.1 contains a patch for this issue. Several workarounds are available, including removing the method label name from counter/gauge used in the InstrumentHandler; turning off affected promhttp handlers; adding custom middleware before promhttp handler that will sanitize the request method given by Go http.Request; and using a reverse proxy or web application firewall, configured to only allow a limited set of methods.

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CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high