CVE-2023-45142
CVE Details
Visit the official vulnerability details page for CVE-2023-45142 to learn more.
Initial Publication
11/13/2024
Last Update
12/16/2024
Third Party Dependency
go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp
NIST CVE Summary
OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. A handler wrapper out of the box adds labels `http.user_agent` and `http.method` that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent to it. HTTP header User-Agent or HTTP method for requests can be easily set by an attacker to be random and long. The library internally uses `httpconv.ServerRequest` that records every value for HTTP `method` and `User-Agent`. In order to be affected, a program has to use the `otelhttp.NewHandler` wrapper and not filter any unknown HTTP methods or User agents on the level of CDN, LB, previous middleware, etc. Version 0.44.0 fixed this issue when the values collected for attribute `http.request.method` were changed to be restricted to a set of well-known values and other high cardinality attributes were removed. As a workaround to stop being affected, `otelhttp.WithFilter()` can be used, but it requires manual careful configuration to not log certain requests entirely. For convenience and safe usage of this library, it should by default mark with the label `unknown` non-standard HTTP methods and User agents to show that such requests were made but do not increase cardinality. In case someone wants to stay with the current behavior, library API should allow to enable it.
CVE Severity
Our Official Summary
This vulnerability is a false positive. Although this is reported by the scanning tools on some of the components, further checks indicate the symbol/function with the vulnerability while present is not being used.
Status
Ongoing
Affected Products & Versions
This CVE is non-impacting as the impacting symbol and/or function is not used in the product
Revision History
| Date | Revision |
|---|---|
| 12/16/2024 | Impacted versions changed from 4.4.20 to 4.4.20, 4.5.15 |
| 12/16/2024 | Advisory is no longer impacting. |
| 12/16/2024 | Official summary revised: This vulnerability is a false positive. Although this is reported by the scanning tools on some of the components, further checks indicate the symbol/function with the vulnerability while present is not being used. |
| 12/12/2024 | Official summary revised: CVE exists in k8s version 1.28.11. For customer workload clusters, workaround is to use k8s version 1.29+. Palette Self Hosted clusters use k8s 1.29 +, hence the cve can be ignored. |
| 12/12/2024 | Official summary revised: This CVE is non impacting as the impacting symbol and/or function is not used in the product. |
| 12/12/2024 | Official summary revised: CVE exists in k8s version 1.28.11. For customer workload clusters, workaround is to use k8s version 1.29+. For PaletteSelf Hosted cluster, a future release will upgrade to 1.29+. |