Input validation error in Traefik - CVE-2024-28869
Published: April 16, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU88546
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-2024-28869
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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Traefik managing requests with "Content-length" and no "body". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Traefik
How to mitigate CVE-2024-28869
Install updates from vendor's website.
Traefik - addressed in versions 2.11.2, 3.0.0 rc5
External References
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-4vwx-54mw-vqfw
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/240b83b77351dfd8cadb91c305b84e9d22e0f9c6
- https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/routing/entrypoints/#respondingtimeouts
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.2
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.0.0-rc5