Description
The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto before 0.5.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the parseVersion1() function. The reader in this package is a default bufio.Reader wrapping a net.Conn. It will read from the connection until it finds a newline. Since no limits are implemented in the code, a deliberately malformed V1 header could be used to exhaust memory in a server process using this code - and create a DoS. This can be exploited by sending a stream starting with PROXY and continuing to send data (which does not contain a newline) until the target stops acknowledging. The risk here is small, because only trusted sources should be allowed to send proxy protocol headers.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | github.com/pires/go-proxyproto | >= unspecified, < 0.5.0 |
References
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/commit/7f48261db810703d173f27f3309a808cc2b49b8bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/issues/69Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/pull/71Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BNVGJMVI3ZTZ675EFPUHPGXCKCGSX46/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C36IBVOZXRTWM7MGTRUTOM56P5RR74VU/
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMPIRESGOPROXYPROTO-1081577Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/commit/7f48261db810703d173f27f3309a808cc2b49b8bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/issues/69Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto/pull/71Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BNVGJMVI3ZTZ675EFPUHPGXCKCGSX46/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C36IBVOZXRTWM7MGTRUTOM56P5RR74VU/
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMPIRESGOPROXYPROTO-1081577Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Mar 8, 2021
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified