OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib vulnerable to denial of service in otelhttp due to unbound cardinality metrics
Résumé
OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib vulnerable to denial of service in otelhttp due to unbound cardinality metrics
Description d'origine
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Summary
This handler wrapper https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/blob/5f7e6ad5a49b45df45f61a1deb29d7f1158032df/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp/handler.go#L63-L65
out of the box adds labels
http.user_agenthttp.method
that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent to it.
Details
HTTP header User-Agent or HTTP method for requests can be easily set by an attacker to be random and long. The library internally uses httpconv.ServerRequest that records every value for HTTP method and User-Agent.
PoC
Send many requests with long randomly generated HTTP methods or/and User agents (e.g. a million) and observe how memory consumption increases during it.
Impact
In order to be affected, the program has to configure a metrics pipeline, use otelhttp.NewHandler wrapper, and does not filter any unknown HTTP methods or User agents on the level of…
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Paquets affectés
État des correctifs par distribution
Paquets corrigés publiés par chaque distribution pour cette CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-45142 golang-opentelemetry-contrib
Références
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
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