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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2021-44716

High
7.5/10

Summary

golang.org/x/net in Go before 0.0.0-20211209124913-491a49abca63 allows uncontrolled memory consumption in the header "canonicalization cache" via HTTP/2 requests.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published