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HIGH7.5

GHSA-9398-5ghf-7pr6

conduit-hyper vulnerable to Denial of Service from unchecked request length

Details

Prior to version 0.4.2, `conduit-hyper` did not check any limit on a request's length before calling [`hyper::body::to_bytes`](https://docs.rs/hyper/latest/hyper/body/fn.to_bytes.html). An attacker could send a malicious request with an abnormally large `Content-Length`, which could lead to a panic if memory allocation failed for that request.

In version 0.4.2, `conduit-hyper` sets an internal limit of 128 MiB per request, otherwise returning status 400 ("Bad Request").

This crate is part of the implementation of Rust's [crates.io](https://crates.io/), but that service is not affected due to its existing cloud infrastructure, which already drops such malicious requests. Even with the new limit in place, `conduit-hyper` is not recommended for production use, nor to directly serve the public Internet.

The vulnerability was discovered by Ori Hollander from the JFrog Security Research team.

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Affected packages

crates.io/conduit-hyper
Introduced in: 0.2.0-alpha.3Fixed in: 0.4.2

Upgrade conduit-hyper to 0.4.2 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

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