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RUSTSEC-2022-0055

No default limit put on request bodies

Reported
Issued
Package
axum-core (crates.io)
Type
Vulnerability
Categories
Keywords
#ddos #oom
Aliases
References
Patched
  • >=0.2.8, <0.3.0-rc.1
  • >=0.3.0-rc.2

Description

<bytes::Bytes as axum_core::extract::FromRequest>::from_request would not, by default, set a limit for the size of the request body. That meant if a malicious peer would send a very large (or infinite) body your server might run out of memory and crash.

This also applies to these extractors which used Bytes::from_request internally:

The fix is also in axum-core 0.3.0.rc.2 but 0.3.0.rc.1 is vulnerable.

Because axum depends on axum-core it is vulnerable as well. The vulnerable versions of axum are <= 0.5.15 and 0.6.0.rc.1. axum >= 0.5.16 and >= 0.6.0.rc.2 does have the fix and are not vulnerable.

The patched versions will set a 2 MB limit by default.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.