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GHSA-99jv-8292-2hpm json

eventing-gitlab vulnerable to denial of service, caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations

published 2y ago modified 2y ago

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public exploits
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none known

Summary

### Impact

The eventing-gitlab cluster-local server doesn't set `ReadHeaderTimeout`‬‭ which could lead do a DDoS‬ ‭attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang‬ ‭for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris‬ ‭attack.

### Patches

Fix in `v1.12.1` and `v1.11.3`.

### Credits

The vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.

Patch / fix

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Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go knative.dev/eventing-gitlab
<=0.39.0
no fix listed

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