CVE-2022-21698 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Prometheus Client Golang
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 48.66%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 15
Latest updateDec 3
Description
client_golang is the instrumentation library for Go applications in Prometheus, and the promhttp package in client_golang provides tooling around HTTP servers and clients. In client_golang prior to version 1.11.1, HTTP server is susceptible to a Denial of Service through unbounded cardinality, and potential memory exhaustion, when handling requests with non-standard HTTP methods. In order to be affected, an instrumented software must use any of `promhttp.InstrumentHandler*` middleware except `Re…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages28 packages
▶debiandebian/golang-github-prometheus-client-golang< golang-github-prometheus-client-golang 1.11.1-1 (bookworm)
Also affects: Fedora 34, 35, 36, 37
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4OSV▶
CVE-2022-21698: client_golang is the instrumentation library for Go applications in Prometheus, and the promhttp package in client_golang provides tooling around HTTP↗2022-02-15
📋Vendor Advisories
3Debian▶
CVE-2022-21698: golang-github-prometheus-client-golang - client_golang is the instrumentation library for Go applications in Prometheus, ...↗2022
📄Research Papers
1arXiv
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