CVE-2023-39326

Denial of service via chunk extensions in net/http

published December 6, 2023

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
68.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01208 · 68.1th percentile
Published
2023-12-06T16:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 DEC 16:27Z
    Denial of service via chunk extensions in net/http
    cvelistv5