Resource exhaustion in Go programming language - CVE-2023-45288

Vulnerability identifier: #VU88184

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: 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:P/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45288

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vendor: Google

Affected software:
Go programming language

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient limitations placed on the amount of CONTINUATION frames that can be sent within a single HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Install updates from vendor's website.

• https://go.dev/issue/65051
• https://go.dev/cl/576155
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/YgW0sx8mN3M
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2687