CVE-2022-24863

http-swagger is an open source wrapper to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. In versions of http-swagger prior to 1.2.6 an attacker may perform a denial of service attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system. The cause of the memory exhaustion is down to improper handling of http methods. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method as a workaround.

http-swagger is an open source wrapper to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. In versions of http-swagger prior to 1.2.6 an attacker may perform a denial of service attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system. The cause of the memory exhaustion is down to improper handling of http methods. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method as a workaround.

Impact

Allows an attacker to perform a DOS attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system.

Patches

Yes. Please upgrade to v1.2.6.

Workarounds

A workaround is to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method. As shown below

func main() {
	r := mux.NewRouter()

	r.PathPrefix("/swagger/").Handler(httpSwagger.Handler(
		httpSwagger.URL("http://localhost:1323/swagger/doc.json"), //The url pointing to API definition
		httpSwagger.DeepLinking(true),
		httpSwagger.DocExpansion("none"),
		httpSwagger.DomID("#swagger-ui"),
	)).Methods(http.MethodGet)

References

Reporter dongguangli from https://www.huoxian.cn/ company

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in http-swagger

http-swagger is an open source wrapper to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. In versions of http-swagger prior to 1.2.6 an attacker may perform a denial of service attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system. The cause of the memory exhaustion is down to improper handling of http methods. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method as a workaround.

http-swagger is an open source wrapper to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. In versions of http-swagger prior to 1.2.6 an attacker may perform a denial of service attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system. The cause of the memory exhaustion is down to improper handling of http methods. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method as a workaround.

http-swagger before 1.2.6 allows XSS via PUT requests, because a file that has been uploaded (via httpSwagger.WrapHandler and *webdav.memFile) can subsequently be accessed via a GET request. NOTE: this is independently fixable with respect to CVE-2022-24863, because (if a solution continued to allow PUT requests) large files could have been blocked without blocking JavaScript, or JavaScript could have been blocked without blocking large files.

http-swagger before 1.2.6 allows XSS via PUT requests, because a file that has been uploaded (via httpSwagger.WrapHandler and *webdav.memFile) can subsequently be accessed via a GET request. NOTE: this is independently fixable with respect to CVE-2022-24863, because (if a solution continued to allow PUT requests) large files could have been blocked without blocking JavaScript, or JavaScript could have been blocked without blocking large files.

Impact

Allows an attacker to perform a DOS attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system.

Patches

Yes. Please upgrade to v1.2.6.

Workarounds

A workaround is to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method. As shown below

func main() {
	r := mux.NewRouter()

	r.PathPrefix("/swagger/").Handler(httpSwagger.Handler(
		httpSwagger.URL("http://localhost:1323/swagger/doc.json"), //The url pointing to API definition
		httpSwagger.DeepLinking(true),
		httpSwagger.DocExpansion("none"),
		httpSwagger.DomID("#swagger-ui"),
	)).Methods(http.MethodGet)

References

Reporter dongguangli from https://www.huoxian.cn/ company

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in http-swagger

The httpSwagger package's HTTP handler provides WebDAV read/write access to an in-memory filesystem. An attacker can exploit this to cause memory exhaustion by uploading many files, XSS attacks by uploading malicious files, or other unexpected behaviors.