| Name | CVE-2022-21698 |
| Description | client_golang is the instrumentation library for Go applications in Prometheus, and the promhttp package in client_golang provides tooling around HTTP servers and clients. In client_golang prior to version 1.11.1, HTTP server is susceptible to a Denial of Service through unbounded cardinality, and potential memory exhaustion, when handling requests with non-standard HTTP methods. In order to be affected, an instrumented software must use any of `promhttp.InstrumentHandler*` middleware except `RequestsInFlight`; not filter any specific methods (e.g GET) before middleware; pass metric with `method` label name to our middleware; and not have any firewall/LB/proxy that filters away requests with unknown `method`. client_golang version 1.11.1 contains a patch for this issue. Several workarounds are available, including removing the `method` label name from counter/gauge used in the InstrumentHandler; turning off affected promhttp handlers; adding custom middleware before promhttp handler that will sanitize the request method given by Go http.Request; and using a reverse proxy or web application firewall, configured to only allow a limited set of methods. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1008008 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - golang-github-prometheus-client-golang <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - golang-github-prometheus-client-golang <postponed> (Limited support, minor issue, DoS in specific conditions, follow bullseye DSAs/point-releases)
[stretch] - golang-github-prometheus-client-golang <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS in specific conditions, requires rebuilding reverse-dependencies; Limited support in stretch)
https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/security/advisories/GHSA-cg3q-j54f-5p7p
https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/pull/962
https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/pull/987