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Netty's HttpPostRequestDecoder can OOM
GHSA-5jpm-x58v-624v · CVE-2024-29025
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Description
Summary
The HttpPostRequestDecoder can be tricked to accumulate data. I have spotted currently two attack vectors
Details
- While the decoder can store items on the disk if configured so, there are no limits to the number of fields the form can have, an attacher can send a chunked post consisting of many small fields that will be accumulated in the
bodyListHttpDatalist. - The decoder cumulates bytes in the
undecodedChunkbuffer until it can decode a field, this field can cumulate data without limits
PoC
Here is a Netty branch that provides a fix + tests : https://github.com/vietj/netty/tree/post-request-decoder
Here is a reproducer with Vert.x (which uses this decoder) https://gist.github.com/vietj/f558b8ea81ec6505f1e9a6ca283c9ae3
Impact
Any Netty based HTTP server that uses the HttpPostRequestDecoder to decode a form.
References
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-5jpm-x58v-624v
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29025
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/0d0c6ed782d13d423586ad0c71737b2c7d02058c
- WEB https://gist.github.com/vietj/f558b8ea81ec6505f1e9a6ca283c9ae3
- PACKAGE https://github.com/netty/netty
- WEB https://github.com/vietj/netty/tree/post-request-decoder
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00015.html
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