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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS13OW1yLTI4bXctajhoZ84AAy-4

Hop-by-hop abuse to malform header mutator

Impact

Downstream services relying on the presence of headers set by the header mutator could be exploited. A client can drop the header set by the header mutator by including that header's name in the Connection header. Example minimal config:

- id: 'example'
  upstream:
    url: 'https://example.com'
  match:
    url: 'http://127.0.0.1:4455/'
    methods:
      - GET
  authenticators:
    - handler: anonymous
  authorizer:
    handler: allow
  mutators:
    - handler: header
      config:
        headers:
          X-Subject: {{ .Subject }}

curl -H "Connection: close,x-subject" http://127.0.0.1:4455/

The X-Subject header will not arrive at the downstream server. It is completely dropped. In case the downstream server handles such a request in an unexpected way, an attacker can exploit this, assuming they know or guess the internal header name.

Patches

c5cc7f736dc84185034be4356057d1c7a656d797

Workarounds

The downstream server should handle the case that an expected header is not set by responding with an appropriate error.

References

See background info in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50580

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w9mr-28mw-j8hg
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS13OW1yLTI4bXctajhoZ84AAy-4
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: over 1 year ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

Identifiers: GHSA-w9mr-28mw-j8hg
References:

• https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper/security/advisories/GHSA-w9mr-28mw-j8hg
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w9mr-28mw-j8hg

Repository: https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper
Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages