Impact
Systems that run distribution built after a specific commit running on memory-restricted environments can suffer from denial of service by a crafted malicious /v2/_catalog API endpoint request.
Patches
Upgrade to at least 2.8.2-beta.1 if you are running v2.8.x release. If you use the code from the main branch, update at least to the commit after f55a6552b006a381d9167e328808565dd2bf77dc.
Workarounds
There is no way to work around this issue without patching. Restrict access to the affected API endpoint: see the recommendations section.
References
/v2/_catalog endpoint accepts a parameter to control the maximum amount of records returned (query string: n).
When not given the default n=100 is used. The server trusts that n has an acceptable value, however when using a
maliciously large value, it allocates an array/slice of n of strings before filling the slice with data.
This behaviour was introduced ~7yrs ago [1].
Recommendation
The /v2/_catalog endpoint was designed specifically to do registry syncs with search or other API systems. Such an endpoint would create a lot of load on the backend system, due to overfetch required to serve a request in certain implementations.
Because of this, we strongly recommend keeping this API endpoint behind heightened privilege and avoiding leaving it exposed to the internet.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
[1] faulty commit
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Impact
Systems that run
distributionbuilt after a specific commit running on memory-restricted environments can suffer from denial of service by a crafted malicious/v2/_catalogAPI endpoint request.Patches
Upgrade to at least 2.8.2-beta.1 if you are running
v2.8.xrelease. If you use the code from the main branch, update at least to the commit after f55a6552b006a381d9167e328808565dd2bf77dc.Workarounds
There is no way to work around this issue without patching. Restrict access to the affected API endpoint: see the recommendations section.
References
/v2/_catalogendpoint accepts a parameter to control the maximum amount of records returned (query string:n).When not given the default
n=100is used. The server trusts thatnhas an acceptable value, however when using amaliciously large value, it allocates an array/slice of
nof strings before filling the slice with data.This behaviour was introduced ~7yrs ago [1].
Recommendation
The
/v2/_catalogendpoint was designed specifically to do registry syncs with search or other API systems. Such an endpoint would create a lot of load on the backend system, due to overfetch required to serve a request in certain implementations.Because of this, we strongly recommend keeping this API endpoint behind heightened privilege and avoiding leaving it exposed to the internet.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
[1] faulty commit