Amazon Linux AMI update for amazon-ecr-credential-helper

Published: 2024-08-06

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2023-39326 CVE-2023-45288
CWE-ID	CWE-400
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	Public exploit code for vulnerability #2 is available.
Vulnerable software	Amazon Linux AMI Operating systems & Components / Operating system amazon-ecr-credential-helper Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	Amazon Web Services

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU83928

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-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

Update the affected packages:

aarch64:
    amazon-ecr-credential-helper-0.7.1-4.amzn2023.aarch64

src:
    amazon-ecr-credential-helper-0.7.1-4.amzn2023.src

x86_64:
    amazon-ecr-credential-helper-0.7.1-4.amzn2023.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

amazon-ecr-credential-helper: All versions

CPE2.3

External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2024-631.html

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.

2) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU88184