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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2021-21328 EUVD-2023-1801GHSA-gcj9-jj38-hwmc

Denial of Service

Published Feb 26, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Vapor is a web framework for Swift. In Vapor before version 4.40.1, there is a DoS attack against anyone who Bootstraps a metrics backend for their Vapor app. The following is the attack vector: 1. send unlimited requests against a vapor instance with different paths. this will create unlimited counters and timers, which will eventually drain the system. 2. downstream services might suffer from this attack as well by being spammed with error paths. This has been patched in 4.40.1. The `DefaultResponder` will rewrite any undefined route paths for to `vapor_route_undefined` to avoid unlimited counters.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vapor vapor <= 4.40.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
SwiftURL github.com/vapor/vapor < 4.40.1 4.40.1 GHSA-gcj9-jj38-hwmc

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