Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting tokio package, versions >=1.9.0 <1.13.1<1.8.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-TOKIO-2326708
  • published27 Dec 2021
  • disclosed27 Dec 2021
  • creditacfoltzer

Introduced: 27 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-45710  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tokio to version 1.13.1, 1.8.4 or higher.

Overview

tokio is an An event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous I/O backed applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when sending and receiving data after closing a oneshot channel. It is possible to be exploited if the oneshot::Sender::send method is called while the corresponding oneshot::Receiver is awaited or calling try_recv.

Note: The race only occurs when both halves of the channel are used after the Receiver half has called close. A code where close is not used, or where the Receiver is not awaited and try_recv is not called after calling close, is not affected.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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