Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in SAML library for go - CVE-2023-28119

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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in SAML library for go - CVE-2023-28119

Published: April 6, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU74575
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2023-28119
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
SAML library for go
Software vendor:
Ross Kinder

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to flate.NewReader does not limit the size of the input. A remote attacker can pass more than 1 MB of data in the HTTP request to the processing functions, which will be decompressed server-side using the Deflate algorithm and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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