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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1tN3ZwLWhxd3YtN201eM0hTg

Unbounded memory usage on exposed HTTP/2 (non-gRPC) endpoints

Impact

The net/http Go package has a reported vulnerability tracked under CVE-2021-44716 which allows attacker controlled HTTP/2 requests to trigger unbounded memory usage in HTTP/2 endpoints. gRPC endpoints are not vulnerable as they rely on their own HTTP/2 implementation instead of the net/http package. HTTP/2 endpoints consuming the net/http package within SPIRE server and agent (or other components in this repository) that are on by default include the following:

The following endpoints are vulnerable when enabled:

The following endpoints are NOT vulnerable, since HTTP/2 support in go is not enabled on non-TLS protected endpoints:

Patches

SPIRE 1.0.3 and 1.1.3 have been released with an upgraded Go toolchain which patches the vulnerability

Workarounds

The vulnerability can be worked around entirely by including the http2server=0 value in the GODEBUG environment variable (see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50058). This turns off HTTP/2 support on all non-gRPC endpoints. They will still function with HTTP/1.1.

The risk associated with this vulnerability can be somewhat mitigated by limiting the exposure of the endpoints in question. If necessary, vulnerable components or endpoints that are optionally configured can be disabled temporarily.

References

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m7vp-hqwv-7m5x
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1tN3ZwLWhxd3YtN201eM0hTg
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago


Identifiers: GHSA-m7vp-hqwv-7m5x
References: Repository: https://github.com/spiffe/spire
Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages

go:github.com/spiffe/spire
Dependent packages: 29
Dependent repositories: 40
Downloads:
Affected Version Ranges: >= 1.1.0, < 1.1.3, < 1.0.3
Fixed in: 1.1.3, 1.0.3
All affected versions: 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.11.2, 0.11.3, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.12.2, 0.12.3, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2
All unaffected versions: 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.8.8, 1.8.9, 1.8.10, 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4