CVE-2024-34084: Github.com/stacklok/minder Denial of Service Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-9c5w-9q3f-3hv7",
  "modified" : "2024-05-10T21:33:54Z",
  "published" : "2024-05-07T13:02:42Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-34084" ],
  "summary" : "Minder's GitHub Webhook Handler vulnerable to DoS from un-validated requests",
  "details" : "Minder's `HandleGithubWebhook` is susceptible to a denial of service attack from an untrusted HTTP request. The vulnerability exists before the request has been validated, and as such the request is still untrusted at the point of failure. This allows an attacker with the ability to send requests to `HandleGithubWebhook` to crash the Minder controlplane and deny other users from using it.\n\nOne of the first things that `HandleGithubWebhook` does is to validate the payload signature. This is done by way of the internal helper `validatePayloadSignature`:\n\nhttps://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks.go#L213-L218\n\n`validatePayloadSignature` generates a reader from the incoming request by way of the internal helper `readerFromRequest`:\n\nhttps://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks.go#L337-L342\n\nTo create a reader from the incoming request, `readerFromRequest` first reads the request body entirely into memory on line 368:\n\nhttps://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks.go#L367-L377\n\nThis is a vulnerability, since an HTTP request with a large body can exhaust the memory of the machine running Minder and cause the Go runtime to crash Minder.\n\nNote that this occurs before Minder has validated the request, and as such, the request is still untrusted.\n\nTo test this out, we can use the existing `TestHandleWebHookRepository` unit test and modify the HTTP request body to be large. \n\nTo do that, change these lines:\n\nhttps://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks_test.go#L278-L283\n\n... to these lines:\n```go\n\tpackageJson, err := json.Marshal(event)\n\trequire.NoError(t, err, \"failed to marshal package event\")\n\n        maliciousBody := strings.NewReader(strings.Repeat(\"1337\", 1000000000))\n        maliciousBodyReader := io.MultiReader(maliciousBody, maliciousBody, maliciousBody, maliciousBody, maliciousBody)\n        _ = packageJson\n\n\tclient := &http.Client{}\n\treq, err := http.NewRequest(\"POST\", fmt.Sprintf(\"http://%s\", addr), maliciousBodyReader)\n\trequire.NoError(t, err, \"failed to create request\")\n```\n\nThen run the unit test again. WARNING, SAVE ALL WORK BEFORE DOING THIS.\n\nOn my local machine, this causes the machine to freeze, and Go finally performs a sigkill: \n\n```\nsignal: killed\nFAIL      github.com/stacklok/minder/internal/controlplane          30.759s\nFAIL\n```",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "github.com/stacklok/minder"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "0.0.48"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/stacklok/minder/security/advisories/GHSA-9c5w-9q3f-3hv7"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-34084"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/stacklok/minder/commit/3e5a527d2f1b535159206161d1d519602c75bd0d"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/stacklok/minder"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks.go#L213-L218"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks.go#L337-L342"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks.go#L367-L377"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/stacklok/minder/blob/ee66f6c0763212503c898cfefb65ce1450c7f5ac/internal/controlplane/handlers_githubwebhooks_test.go#L278-L283"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-400" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2024-05-07T13:02:42Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2024-05-07T15:15:09Z"
  }
}