CVE-2024-37298 HIGH

CVE-2024-37298: Potential memory exhaustion attack due to sparse slice deserialization

Vendor Gorilla
Product schema
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published July 1, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

gorilla/schema converts structs to and from form values. Prior to version 1.4.1 Running `schema.Decoder.Decode()` on a struct that has a field of type `[]struct{...}` opens it up to malicious attacks regarding memory allocations, taking advantage of the sparse slice functionality. Any use of `schema.Decoder.Decode()` on a struct with arrays of other structs could be vulnerable to this memory exhaustion vulnerability. Version 1.4.1 contains a patch for the issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 1, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated