SB2023040681 - Multiple vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Nomad
Published: April 6, 2023
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-24534)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing HTTP and MIME headers in net/textproto. A remote attacker can cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1782)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to otherwise restricted functionality.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions and send unauthenticated HTTP API requests through the client.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/releases/tag/v1.4.8"
- https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/releases/tag/v1.4.8</a></p><p><a
- https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/releases/tag/v1.5.3"
- https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/releases/tag/v1.5.3</a></p><p>
- https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/releases/tag/v1.3.13<br></p>
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-12-nomad-unauthenticated-client-agent-http-request-privilege-escalation/52375