CVE-2021-3912 OctoRPKI crashes when processing GZIP bomb returned via malicious repository

2021-11-0100:00:00

CWE-400

cloudflare

www.cve.org

4.2 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

30.8%

JSON

OctoRPKI tries to load the entire contents of a repository in memory, and in the case of a GZIP bomb, unzip it in memory, making it possible to create a repository that makes OctoRPKI run out of memory (and thus crash).

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "octorpki",
    "vendor": "Cloudflare",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "1.4.0",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]