CVE-2023-20882 Denial of service in Cloud Foundry Routing release

Medium 5.9 Published Updated

Attackers can cause denial of service for Cloud Foundry applications by prematurely closing client connections, triggering backend removal from the routing pool.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-20882?

CVE-2023-20882 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cloud Foundry Routing release, published on 26 May 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Cloud foundry routing release versions from 0.262.0 and prior to 0.266.0,a bug in the gorouter process can lead to a denial of service of applications hosted on Cloud Foundry. Under the right circumstances, when client connections are closed prematurely, gorouter marks the currently selected backend as failed and removes it from the routing pool.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-20882?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Cloudfoundry Cf-Deployment, Cloudfoundry Routing Release.

How do I fix CVE-2023-20882?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-20882 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-20882 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20882 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f2f8-4q6m-2pw8.

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