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High · 7.5 CVE-2022-39294 EUVD-2022-7059GHSA-9398-5ghf-7pr6RUSTSEC-2022-0066

(DoS) Denial of Service from unchecked request length in conduit-hyper

Published Oct 31, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

conduit-hyper integrates a conduit application with the hyper server. Prior to version 0.4.2, `conduit-hyper` did not check any limit on a request's length before calling [`hyper::body::to_bytes`](https://docs.rs/hyper/latest/hyper/body/fn.to_bytes.html). An attacker could send a malicious request with an abnormally large `Content-Length`, which could lead to a panic if memory allocation failed for that request. In version 0.4.2, `conduit-hyper` sets an internal limit of 128 MiB per request, otherwise returning status 400 ("Bad Request"). This crate is part of the implementation of Rust's [crates.io](https://crates.io/), but that service is not affected due to its existing cloud infrastructure, which already drops such malicious requests. Even with the new limit in place, `conduit-hyper` is not recommended for production use, nor to directly serve the public Internet.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
conduit-rust conduit-hyper >= 0.2.0-alpha.3, < 0.4.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io conduit-hyper >= 0.2.0-alpha.3, < 0.4.2 0.4.2 GHSA-9398-5ghf-7pr6

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