CVE-2021-44716
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Description
There's an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw in golang's net/http library in the canonicalHeader() function. An attacker who submits specially crafted requests to applications linked with net/http's http2 functionality could cause excessive resource consumption that could lead to a denial of service or otherwise impact to system performance and resources.
Statement
For OpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat Quay and OpenShift distributed tracing the most an attacker can possibly achieve by exploiting this vulnerability is to crash a container, temporarily impacting availability of one or more services. Therefore impact is rated Moderate.
In its default configuration, grafana as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is not affected by this vulnerability. However, enabling http2 in /etc/grafana/grafana.ini explicitly would render grafana affected, therefore grafana has been marked affected.
Mitigation
This flaw can be mitigated by disabling HTTP/2. Setting the GODEBUG=http2server=0 environment variable before calling Serve will disable HTTP/2 unless it was manually configured through the golang.org/x/net/http2 package.
Additional information
- Bugzilla 2030801: golang: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache
- CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- FAQ: Frequently asked questions about CVE-2021-44716
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
Important note
CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).
| Red Hat | NVD | |
|---|---|---|
CVSS v3 Base Score | 7.5 | 7.5 |
Attack Vector | Network | Network |
Attack Complexity | Low | Low |
Privileges Required | None | None |
User Interaction | None | None |
Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged |
Confidentiality Impact | None | None |
Integrity Impact | None | None |
Availability Impact | High | High |
CVSS v3 Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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