🛡️ GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr — eventing-github

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Weakness class

GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr is recorded against 1 package.

  • knative.dev/eventing-github

Timeline and source

Published on 6 December 2023 and last revised on 21 August 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-12-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-08-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
knative.dev/eventing-github

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