CVE-2024-21631CWE-1104CWE-190CWE-20

Integer overflow in URI leading to potential host spoofing

Medium · published January 3, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vapor is an HTTP web framework for Swift. Prior to version 4.90.0, Vapor's `vapor_urlparser_parse` function uses `uint16_t` indexes when parsing a URI's components, which may cause integer overflows when parsing untrusted inputs. This vulnerability does not affect Vapor directly but could impact applications relying on the URI type for validating user input. The URI type is used in several places in Vapor. A developer may decide to use URI to represent a URL in their application (especially if that URL is then passed to the HTTP Client) and rely on its public properties and methods. However, URI may fail to properly parse a valid (albeit abnormally long) URL, due to string ranges being converted to 16-bit integers. An attacker may use this behavior to trick the application into accepting a URL to an untrusted destination. By padding the port number with zeros, an attacker can cause an integer overflow to occur when the URL authority is parsed and, as a result, spoof the host. Version 4.90.0 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, validate user input before parsing as a URI or, if possible, use Foundation's `URL` and `URLComponents` utilities.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00601 · 48.1th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-1104 · Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components; CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2024-01-03T16:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JAN 16:55Z
    Integer overflow in URI leading to potential host spoofing
    cvelistv5