GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-7h24-c332-p48c vproxy Divide by Zero DoS Vulnerability
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-54581
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- vproxy
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
- Reviewed
- 2025-07-30
Affected packages
• crates.io vproxy: < 2.4.0 → fixed in 2.4.0
Description
Summary
Untrusted, user-controlled data from the HTTP Proxy-Authorization header can induce a denial of service state.
Details
Untrusted data is extracted from the user-controlled HTTP Proxy-Authorization header and passed to Extension::try_from and flows into parse_ttl_extension where it is parsed as a TTL value. If an attacker supplies a TTL of zero (e.g. by using a username such as 'configuredUser-ttl-0'), the modulo operation 'timestamp % ttl' will cause a division by zero panic, causing the server to crash causing a denial-of-service.
The code assumed to be responsible for this can be found here: https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/blob/ab304c3854bf8480be577039ada0228907ba0923/src/extension.rs#L173-L183
PoC
1. Download and run the latest version of vproxy
2. Send a cUrl request like the following, adjusting address and port as necessary: ```curl -x "http://test-ttl-0:[email protected]:8101" https://google.com```
3. Wait for a cUrl error indicating "Proxy CONNECT aborted"
4. View logs from the vproxy server
5. Observe that the vproxy server crashed due to a divide-by-zero panic
Impact
The resulting crash renders the proxy server unusable until it is reset.
Finally, one last note: I'm reporting this on behalf of another researcher at Black Duck. Credit for discovery should be attributed to David Bohannon (dbohannon)
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-54581 vproxy is an HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 proxy server. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/security/advisories/GHSA-7h24-c332-p48c web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54581 advisory
- https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/commit/aa1bf64c5e7f1c471395f9f29175ffc1b16a1079 web
- https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy package
- https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/releases/tag/v2.4.0 web