Denial of service in Gorilla schema



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-37298
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 schema
Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products

Vendor gorilla

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU94743

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-37298

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 in schema.Decoder.Decode() . A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

schema: 1.0.0 - 1.4.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://github.com/gorilla/schema/security/advisories/GHSA-3669-72x9-r9p3
https://github.com/gorilla/schema/commit/cd59f2f12cbdfa9c06aa63e425d1fe4a806967ff
https://github.com/gorilla/schema/blob/main/decoder.go#L223


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.



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