{"id":"GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr","aliases":["GO-2023-2388"],"status":"published","title":"eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations","description":"### Impact\n\nThe eventing-github cluster-local server doesn't set `ReadHeaderTimeout`‬‭ which could lead do a DDoS‬ ‭attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang‬ ‭for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris‬ ‭attack.\n\n### Patches\n\nFix in `v1.12.1` and `v1.11.3`\n\n### Credits\n\nThe vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.","facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-400"],"published":"2023-12-06T19:19:35Z","modified":"2026-03-03T04:55:09Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Go","package":"knative.dev/eventing-github","fixed_in":["0.39.1"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Go","package":"knative.dev/eventing-github","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.39.1"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"knative.dev/eventing-github","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.39.1"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"knative.dev/eventing-github","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.39.1"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/security/advisories/GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr","tags":["web","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/442","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/446","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/pull/447","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github/commit/ea5cb8b25fc3410dde45ce2eb95454e4cfe77c40","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative-extensions/eventing-github","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr","title":"eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations","description":"### Impact\n\nThe eventing-github cluster-local server doesn't set `ReadHeaderTimeout`‬‭ which could lead do a DDoS‬ ‭attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang‬ ‭for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris‬ ‭attack.\n\n### Patches\n\nFix in `v1.12.1` and `v1.11.3`\n\n### Credits\n\nThe vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.\n","status":"published","published":"2023-12-06T19:19:35Z","modified":"2023-12-06T19:19:36Z","cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:37:24.593982Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr","title":"eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations","description":"### Impact\n\nThe eventing-github cluster-local server doesn't set `ReadHeaderTimeout`‬‭ which could lead do a DDoS‬ ‭attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang‬ ‭for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris‬ ‭attack.\n\n### Patches\n\nFix in `v1.12.1` and `v1.11.3`\n\n### Credits\n\nThe vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.\n","status":"published","published":"2023-12-06T19:19:35Z","modified":"2024-08-21T14:57:07.620437Z","cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:56.981655Z"},{"id":"GO-2023-2388","title":"eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations in knative.dev/eventing-github","description":"eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations in knative.dev/eventing-github","status":"published","published":"2024-08-21T14:30:24Z","modified":"2026-03-03T04:55:09.917706Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:47:01.185262Z"}]}}