Resource exhaustion in Traefik

CVE-2023-29013

Traefik (pronounced traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer for deploying microservices. There is a vulnerability in Go when parsing the HTTP headers, which impacts Traefik. HTTP header parsing could allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. This behavior could be exploited to cause a denial of service. This issue has been patched in versions 2.9.10 and 2.10.0-rc2.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2023-29013: held from 0.011 to 0.011.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Traefik — versions < 2.9.10, = 2.10.0-rc1, 2.10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-29013?
CVE-2023-29013 is a high-severity vulnerability in Traefik, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-04-14.
How severe is CVE-2023-29013?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.