CVE-2023-37475CWE-400

Attacker-controlled parameter can cause denial of service in hamba avro

High · published July 17, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
61.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Hamba avro is a go lang encoder/decoder implementation of the avro codec specification. In affected versions a well-crafted string passed to avro's `github.com/hamba/avro/v2.Unmarshal()` can throw a `fatal error: runtime: out of memory` which is unrecoverable and can cause denial of service of the consumer of avro. The root cause of the issue is that avro uses part of the input to `Unmarshal()` to determine the size when creating a new slice and hence an attacker may consume arbitrary amounts of memory which in turn may cause the application to crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `b4a402f4` which has been included in release version `2.13.0`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00961 · 61.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2023-07-17T16:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUL 16:36Z
    Attacker-controlled parameter can cause denial of service in hamba avro
    cvelistv5