SB2023040669 - Denial of service in SAML library for go
Published: April 6, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023040669
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28119)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to flate.NewReader does not limit the size of the input. A remote attacker can pass more than 1 MB of data in the HTTP request to the processing
functions, which will be decompressed server-side using the Deflate
algorithm and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.