Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.20.17 security, enhancement & bug fix update

Important

A flaw was found in the net/url package in the Go standard library. The package does not enforce a limit on the number of unique query parameters it parses. A Go application using the net/http.Request.ParseForm method will try to process all parameters provided in the request. A specially crafted HTTP request containing a massive number of query parameters will cause the application to consume an excessive amount of memory, eventually causing the application to crash or become unresponsive, resulting in a denial of service.

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

A flaw was found in fast-uri. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted Uniform Resource Locator (URL) containing percent-encoded path separators and dot segments. Due to incorrect processing, fast-uri would decode these elements before proper normalization, leading to distinct URLs resolving to the same internal path. This could allow an attacker to bypass security policies that rely on path-based comparisons, potentially gaining unauthorized access to resources.

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

A flaw was found in fast-uri. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that contains percent-encoded authority delimiters. The fast-uri library incorrectly decodes these delimiters during normalization and then re-emits them as raw separators, which can change the URI's intended authority. This issue allows applications that perform host allowlist checks, redirect validation, or outbound request routing to be steered to a different authority than specified, potentially bypassing security controls.

CWE-140 - Improper Neutralization of Delimiters

A flaw was found in undici. When using Socks5ProxyAgent, undici incorrectly reuses a single connection pool across different origins. This can lead to cross-origin request routing, where sensitive credentials and data intended for one destination are sent to another. Consequently, responses from unintended origins may be trusted, and secure HTTPS connections could be silently downgraded to unencrypted HTTP, resulting in information disclosure and data integrity issues.

CWE-940 - Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel

A flaw was found in undici. When undici's ProxyAgent is configured with a SOCKS5 proxy Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), it silently ignores Transport Layer Security (TLS) options, such as custom Certificate Authorities (CAs). This allows a remote attacker to perform a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack, intercepting and tampering with HTTPS communications. The connection falls back to Node.js's default trust store, bypassing intended security configurations and potentially leading to information disclosure or arbitrary code execution.

CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation

A flaw was found in form-data, a library for creating readable multipart/form-data streams. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by injecting carriage return (CR), line feed (LF), or double-quote (") characters into the `field` argument of `FormData#append` or the `filename` option. This allows the attacker to inject additional headers or smuggle entire additional multipart parts into requests, potentially enabling them to add or override form fields and compromise data integrity.

CWE-93 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

A flaw was found in undici. A malicious WebSocket server can exploit this by streaming numerous small or empty continuation frames. This can bypass per-frame and cumulative-size validation, leading to unbounded memory growth in the client process. The primary consequence is memory exhaustion, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) for affected applications using the undici WebSocket client or WebSocketStream API.

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling