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CVE-2021-23351

4.9 mediumEPSS 1.9%

Medium (4.9). EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/pires/go-proxyproto 0.5.0.

The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto before 0.5.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the parseVersion1() function. The reader in this package is a default bufio.Reader wrapping a net.Conn. It will read from the connection until it finds a newline. Since no limits are implemented in the code, a deliberately malformed V1 header could be used to exhaust memory in a server process using this code - and create a DoS. This can be exploited by sending a stream starting with PROXY and continuing to send data (which does not contain a newline) until the target stops acknowledging. The risk here is small, because only trusted sources should be allowed to send proxy protocol headers.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.9 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-fqh4-rh59-xhvfGogithub.com/pires/go-proxyproto<0.5.00.5.0

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