Vulnerability · Published Apr 18, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-24863Denial of service in http-swagger

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in http-swagger from swaggo. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.4% (higher than 84% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)2.4%top 15.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

http-swagger is an open source wrapper to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. In versions of http-swagger prior to 1.2.6 an attacker may perform a denial of service attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system. The cause of the memory exhaustion is down to improper handling of http methods. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method as a workaround.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Go	github.com/swaggo/http-swagger	1.2.6	GHSA-49w7-5r33-jm9m
Go	github.com/swaggo/http-swagger	1.2.6	GHSA-xg75-q3q5-cqmv
Go	github.com/swaggo/http-swagger	1.2.6	GO-2022-0427

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
swaggo	http-swagger	< 1.2.6

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/security/advisories/GHSA-xg75-q3q5-cqmv x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/pull/62 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/commit/b7d83e8fba85a7a51aa7e45e8244b4173f15049e x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/releases/tag/v1.2.6 x_refsource_MISC