Input validation error in Traefik - CVE-2023-29013

 

Input validation error in Traefik - CVE-2023-29013

Published: April 10, 2023 / Updated: April 11, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU74624
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-29013
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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. 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.


Affected software

Traefik
IBM Robotic Process Automation
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

How to mitigate CVE-2023-29013

Install updates from vendor's website.

Traefik - update to 2.9.10
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 3.7.2
IBM Robotic Process Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.7.8, 23.0.9
Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak - addressed in versions 21.0.7.8, 23.0.9

External References

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