Denial of service in Red Hat Openshift distributed tracing

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU83928

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39326

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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 handling HTTP chunked requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the server and consume excessive memory resources.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing (RHOSDT): 3.0.0 - 3.1.0

External links

http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1434

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.