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GHSA-8hxh-r6f7-jf45

Published Oct 16, 2020·Last modified Dec 2, 2024

Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

A server we connect to with http4s-async-http-client could theoretically respond with a large or malicious compressed stream and exhaust memory in the client JVM. It does not affect http4s servers, other client backends, or clients that speak only to trusted servers. This is related to a transitive dependency on netty-codec-4.1.45.Final, which is affected by CVE-2020-11612.

Patches

Upgrade to http4s-async-http-client >= 0.21.8. All 1.0 milestones are also safe.

Workarounds

Add an explicit runtime dependency on async-http-client's netty dependencies that evicts them to an unaffected version:

libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "io.netty" %  "netty-codec"         % "4.1.53.Final" % Runtime,
  "io.netty" %  "netty-codec-socks"   % "4.1.53.Final" % Runtime,
  "io.netty" %  "netty-handler-proxy" % "4.1.53.Final" % Runtime,
  "io.netty" %  "netty-common"        % "4.1.53.Final" % Runtime,
  "io.netty" %  "netty-transport"     % "4.1.53.Final" % Runtime,
  "io.netty" %  "netty-handler"       % "4.1.53.Final" % Runtime,
  "io.netty" %  "netty-resolver-dns"  % "4.1.53.Final" % Runtime
)

References

https://app.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-564897
https://github.com/http4s/http4s/issues/3681

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open an issue in http4s
Contact a maintainer privately per http4s' security policy

Risk Scores

Base Score

0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence

0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS

N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit

Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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