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GHSA-33m8-f4hw-wm3q CVE-2022-4767 GO-2022-1219

usememos/memos Denial of Service vulnerability

High Go
Severity
7.5 / 10
High · CVSS 3.1
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.72%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 54.05% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Fix
0.9.1
Upgrade github.com/usememos/memos to this version or later

Description

Denial of Service in GitHub repository usememos/memos 0.9.0 and prior. A patch is available on the main branch at commit number f888c628408501daf639de07b90a72ab443b0f4c.

Affected versions

Go

PackageVulnerableFixed in
github.com/usememos/memos
< 0.9.1
0.9.1

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

github.com/usememos/memos Go → 0.9.1

go
go get github.com/usememos/memos@v0.9.1 && go mod tidy

Severity breakdown

CVSS 3.1 7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Weakness

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place. The login application should be protected against DoS attacks as much as possible. Limiting the database access, perhaps by caching result sets, can help minimize the resources expended. To further limit the potential for a DoS attack, consider tracking the rate of requests received from users and blocking requests that exceed a defined rate threshold.
  • Architecture and Design: Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed. The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question. The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.
  • Architecture and Design: Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
  • Implementation: Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-gqp3-hfc3-8q54
Memos has an Incorrect Privilege Assignment issue
Medium Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
GHSA-qgjp-5g5x-vhq2
memos lacks file name validation or verification
Medium Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
GHSA-99m2-qwx6-2w6f
memos vulnerability allows arbitrarily modification or deletion registered identity providers
Medium Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
GHSA-mg56-wc4q-rw4w
memos vulnerability allows the creation of arbitrary accounts
High Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
GHSA-8p44-g572-557h
memos vulnerability allows arbitrarily modification or deletion of attachments
Medium Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
GHSA-8jcj-g9f4-qx42
memos vulnerability allows arbitrarily reactions deletion
Medium Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
GHSA-mr34-8733-grr2
Memos' Access Tokens Stay Valid after User Password Change
High Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
GHSA-cgrg-86m5-xm4w
Memos Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Medium Also affects github.com/usememos/memos
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