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GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr

eventing-github vulnerable to denial of service caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations

Quick fix

GHSA-v7hc-87jc-qrrr — knative.dev/eventing-github: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get knative.dev/eventing-github@v0.39.1

Details

### Impact

The 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.

### Patches

Fix in `v1.12.1` and `v1.11.3`

### Credits

The vulnerability was reported by Ada Logics during an ongoing security audit of Knative involving Ada Logics, the Knative maintainers, OSTIF and CNCF.

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Affected packages

Go/knative.dev/eventing-github
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.39.1
Fixgo get knative.dev/eventing-github@v0.39.1

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