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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS12N2hjLTg3amMtcXJycs4AA3l6

eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations

Impact

The eventing-github cluster-local server doesn't set ReadHeaderTimeout‬‭ which could lead do a DDoS‬ ‭attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang‬ ‭for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris‬ ‭attack.

Patches

Fix in v1.12.1 and v1.11.3

Credits

The vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS12N2hjLTg3amMtcXJycs4AA3l6
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: 5 months ago
Updated: 5 months ago

Identifiers: GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr
References:

• https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/security/advisories/GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr
• https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/442
• https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/446
• https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/447
• https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/commit/ea5cb8b25fc3410dde45ce2eb95454e4cfe77c40
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr

Repository: https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github
Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages