GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9: Duplicate advisory Denial of Service Vulnerability

HIGH
CVSS 7.5
CWE-130
Published
Advisory Summary

GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) denial of service vulnerability (CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency) affecting Duplicate advisory libraries in the SwiftURL ecosystem. The issue involves swift-nio-http2 vulnerable to denial of service via invalid http/2 headers frame length. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 1.19.2.

GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9 at a Glance

CVE Identifier N/A
GHSA Identifier GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9
Severity HIGH
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.5
CWE Classification CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
Affected Product Duplicate advisory
Package Ecosystem SwiftURL
Published Date
Last Updated

Security Impact

CVSS: 7.5

The security impact metrics below are parsed directly from the CVSS v3.1 vector string (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Attack Vector Network (AV:N)
Attack Complexity Low (AC:L)
Privileges Required None (PR:N)
User Interaction None (UI:N)
Scope Unchanged (S:U)
Confidentiality None (C:N)
Integrity None (I:N)
Availability High (A:H)

How to Fix GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9

To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Duplicate advisory dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.

github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2 fixed: 1.19.2
Upgrade github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2 to 1.19.2
Verify Direct and Transitive Dependencies

Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:

inspect dependencies for github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2

How to Check if You Are Affected

To determine whether your application is affected by GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9, inspect your project dependencies for Duplicate advisory:

inspect dependencies for github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2

Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Duplicate advisory in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 1.19.2), your application is affected.

Note: Verify declared build manifests and deployed runtime container environments.

Technical Details

Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis

This vulnerability is classified under CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency, where the product parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data. In Duplicate advisory, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.

Source Advisory Statement

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-pgfx-g6rc-8cjv. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description A program using swift-nio-http2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a network peer sending a specially crafted HTTP/2 frame. This attack affects all swift-nio-http2 versions from 1.0.0 to 1.19.1. This vulnerability is caused by a logical error when parsing a HTTP/2 HEADERS frame where the frame contains priority information without any other data. This logical error caused confusion about the size of the frame, leading to a parsing error. This parsing error immediately crashes the entire process. Sending a HEADERS frame with HTTP/2 priority information does not require any special permission, so any HTTP/2 connection peer may send such a frame. For clients, this means any server to which they connect may launch this attack. For servers, anyone they allow to connect to them may launch such an attack. The attack is low-effort: it takes very little resources to send an appropriately crafted frame. The impact on availability is high: receiving the frame immediately crashes the server, dropping all in-flight connections and causing the service to need to restart. It is straightforward for an attacker to repeatedly send appropriately crafted frames, so attackers require very few resources to achieve a substantial denial of service. The attack does not have any confidentiality or integrity risks in and of itself: swift-nio-http2 is parsing the frame in memory-safe code, so the crash is safe. However, sudden process crashes can lead to violations of invariants in services, so it is possible that this attack can be used to trigger an error condition that has confidentiality or integrity risks. The risk can be mitigated if untrusted peers can be prevented from communicating with the service. This mitigation is not available to many services. The issue is fixed by rewriting the parsing code to correctly handle the condition. The issue was found by automated fuzzing by oss-fuzz.

GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9 Affected Duplicate advisory Versions

1 component(s)
Fixed Versions:
1.19.2
Product / Package Ecosystem Affected Versions Fixed Version
github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2
SwiftURL
≥ 1.0.0
< 1.19.2
1.19.2

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9?
GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9 is a security vulnerability in Duplicate advisory involving swift-nio-http2 vulnerable to denial of service via invalid HTTP/2 HEADERS frame length under CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency.
Which Duplicate advisory versions are affected?
Affected versions include releases prior to 1.19.2 across affected packages: github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2.
What version fixes GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9?
Upgrading to 1.19.2 (or the latest patched release for your respective branch) resolves the vulnerability.
Is github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2 affected?
Yes, github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2 is affected in releases prior to 1.19.2. Upgrade your dependency to 1.19.2 or later.
What is the CVSS score of GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9?
GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
What CWE is associated with GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9?
GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9 is classified under CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency (The product parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data.).
How can I check SwiftURL dependencies for GHSA-pv7r-9vjg-g3f9?
Run the dependency tree command: 'inspect dependencies for github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2'. This command lists direct and transitive dependencies in your build configuration so you can verify if a vulnerable version is resolved.
Machine-readable OSV JSON OSV v1.5 Schema
Normalized schema output
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