SB2023040681 - Multiple vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Nomad



SB2023040681 - Multiple vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Nomad

Published: April 6, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023040681
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
  • 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.