UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23351 (CVE-2021-23351)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2021-03-08 05:15 – Updated: 2025-09-08 16:46 – Source website
VLAI
Details

The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto before 0.5.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the parseVersion1() function. The reader in this package is a default bufio.Reader wrapping a net.Conn. It will read from the connection until it finds a newline. Since no limits are implemented in the code, a deliberately malformed V1 header could be used to exhaust memory in a server process using this code - and create a DoS. This can be exploited by sending a stream starting with PROXY and continuing to send data (which does not contain a newline) until the target stops acknowledging. The risk here is small, because only trusted sources should be allowed to send proxy protocol headers.

Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.4.2-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto@0.4.2-1?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          ],
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        }
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto before 0.5.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the parseVersion1() function. The reader in this package is a default bufio.Reader wrapping a net.Conn. It will read from the connection until it finds a newline. Since no limits are implemented in the code, a deliberately malformed V1 header could be used to exhaust memory in a server process using this code - and create a DoS. This can be exploited by sending a stream starting with PROXY and continuing to send data (which does not contain a newline) until the target stops acknowledging. The risk here is small, because only trusted sources should be allowed to send proxy protocol headers.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23351",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:46:59Z",
  "published": "2021-03-08T05:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23351"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/commit/7f48261db810703d173f27f3309a808cc2b49b8b"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/issues/69"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/pull/71"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMPIRESGOPROXYPROTO-1081577"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23351"
    }
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  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2021-23351"
  ]
}



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