Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed22 Apr 2021
Introduced: 22 Apr 2021
CVE-2021-31525 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter package and not the golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter package as distributed by RHEL.
net/http in Go before 1.15.12 and 1.16.x before 1.16.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse. Server, Transport, and Client can each be affected in some configurations.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958341
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31525
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ISRZZ6NY5R2TBYE72KZFOCO25TEUQTBF/
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45710
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/cu9SP4eSXMc
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ISRZZ6NY5R2TBYE72KZFOCO25TEUQTBF/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02