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CVE-2022-24863

Published: Apr 18, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

Description

http-swagger is an open source wrapper to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. In versions of http-swagger prior to 1.2.6 an attacker may perform a denial of service attack consisting of memory exhaustion on the host system. The cause of the memory exhaustion is down to improper handling of http methods. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may to restrict the path prefix to the "GET" method as a workaround.

Vendor	Product	Versions
swaggo	http-swagger	affected `< 1.2.6`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

References

https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/security/advisories/GHSA-xg75-q3q5-cqmv

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/pull/62

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/commit/b7d83e8fba85a7a51aa7e45e8244b4173f15049e

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/swaggo/http-swagger/releases/tag/v1.2.6

x_refsource_MISC

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