GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-cpf9-ph2j-ccr9 zrok: Unauthenticated DoS via unbounded memory allocation in striped session cookie parsing
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-40303
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/openziti/zrok, github.com/openziti/zrok/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, CWE-789
- Reviewed
- 2026-04-16
Affected packages
• Go github.com/openziti/zrok: <= 1.1.11 (no fix yet)
• Go github.com/openziti/zrok/v2: < 2.0.1 → fixed in 2.0.1
Description
Summary
endpoints.GetSessionCookie parses an attacker-supplied cookie chunk count and calls make([]string, count) with no upper bound before any token validation occurs. The function is reached on every request to an OAuth-protected proxy share, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger gigabyte-scale heap allocations per request, leading to process-level OOM termination or repeated goroutine panics. Both publicProxy and dynamicProxy are affected.
• Attack Vector: Network — exploitable via a single HTTP request with a crafted Cookie header.
• Attack Complexity: Low — no preconditions or chaining required; the attacker only needs to know the cookie name (publicly derivable from any OAuth redirect).
• Privileges Required: None — reached before JWT validation or any authentication check.
• User Interaction: None.
• Scope: Unchanged — impact is confined to the affected proxy process.
• Confidentiality Impact: None.
• Integrity Impact: None.
Availability Impact: High — sustained or concurrent requests cause OOM process termination, taking down the proxy for all users of all shares it serves.
Affected Components
• endpoints/oauthCookies.go — GetSessionCookie (line 81)
• endpoints/publicProxy/authOAuth.go — handleOAuth (line 50) — call site, pre-auth
• endpoints/dynamicProxy/cookies.go — getSessionCookie (line 29) — call site
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-40303 zrok is software for sharing web services, files, and network resources. vulnerability