CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-37475
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-07-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• avro project avro (< 2.13.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/hamba/avro/commit/b4a402f41cf44b6094b5131286830ba9bb1eb290 Patch
- https://github.com/hamba/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-9x44-9pgq-cf45 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/hamba/avro/commit/b4a402f41cf44b6094b5131286830ba9bb1eb290 Patch
- https://github.com/hamba/avro/security/advisories/GHSA-9x44-9pgq-cf45 Exploit, Vendor Advisory