Vulnerability CVE-2023-39326


Published: 2023-12-06   Modified: 2023-12-14

Description:
A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

Affected software
Golang -> GO 

 References:
https://go.dev/issue/64433
https://go.dev/cl/547335
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/6ypN5EjibjM/m/KmLVYH_uAgAJ
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-2382

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