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high 7.5

CVE-2023-37788 json

goproxy Denial of Service vulnerability

published 2023-07-18 3 y ago modified 2026-08-07 3 mo ago also GHSA-4r8x-2p26-976p , GO-2023-1941 , EUVD-2023-1958

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

goproxy v1.1 was discovered to contain an issue which can lead to a Denial of service (DoS) via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/elazarl/goproxy 0.0.0-20230731152917-f99041a5c027
  • golang-github-elazarl-goproxy Debian 14, Debian 13 1.1+git20231117.7cc037d+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-37788

  • fmt openshift 4.14 9.1.0-1.el9
  • crun openshift 4.14 1.9.2-1.rhaos4.14.el8
  • crun openshift 4.14 1.9.2-1.rhaos4.14.el9
  • perf openshift 4.14 5.14.0-284.36.1.el9_2
  • rtla openshift 4.14 5.14.0-284.36.1.el9_2
  • runc openshift 4.14 4:1.1.9-2.1.rhaos4.14.el8
  • runc openshift 4.14 4:1.1.9-2.1.rhaos4.14.el9
  • catch openshift 4.14 3.3.2-1.el9

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:5009RHSA-2023:5407

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-37788 updated cvss 7.5

goproxy: Denial of service (DoS) via unspecified vectors.

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/eventrouter-rhel9, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Logical Volume Manager Storage lvms4/lvms-rhel9-operator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator, openshift-serverless-1/kn-client-kn-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-serving-queue-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/net-istio-webhook-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-mtping-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-webhook-kafka-rhel9, +2 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp26/3scale-operator, 3scale-amp2/apicast-rhel9-operator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/acm-cluster-proxy-rhel8, rhacm2/multiclusterhub-repo-rhel8, acm-multicluster-globalhub-agent-container
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift, atomic-openshift-pod, atomic-openshift-node, atomic-openshift-tests, atomic-openshift-master, atomic-openshift-clients, +7 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-tests, sandboxed-containers, openshift4/ose-console, openshift4/ose-telemeter, openshift4/cnf-tests-rhel8, openshift4/ose-tools-rhel9, +44 more
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
show 14 more
  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator, ocs4/volume-replication-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator, odf4/odr-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-lvm-rhel8-operator, odf4/odf-csi-addons-sidecar-rhel8, odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-mm-rest-proxy-rhel8, rhods/odh-operator-base-rhel8, rhods/odh-model-controller-rhel8, rhods/odh-ml-pipelines-cache-rhel8, rhods/odh-notebook-controller-rhel8, rhods/odh-modelmesh-runtime-adapter-rhel8, +2 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/openshift-gitops-operator
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8, quay/quay-builder-rhel8, quay/quay-operator-rhel8, quay/quay-openshift-bridge-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9 v2.12.0-18, rhacm2/acm-cli-rhel9 v2.12.0-17, rhacm2/console-rhel9 v2.12.0-68, rhacm2/memcached-rhel9 v2.12.0-7, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 v2.12.0-14, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 v2.12.0-17, +40 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8974
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 openshift4/ztp-site-generate-rhel8 v4.12.5-9, openshift4/baremetal-hardware-event-proxy-rhel8 v4.12.5-2, openshift4/bare-metal-event-relay-rhel8-operator v4.12.5-6, openshift4/bare-metal-event-relay-operator-bundle v4.12.5-3, openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-precache-rhel8 v4.12.6-10, openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-recovery-rhel8 v4.12.6-10, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHEA-2023:5445
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 openshift 4.14.0-202310210404.p0.gf67aeb3.assembly.stream.el8, openshift 4.14.0-202310210404.p0.gf67aeb3.assembly.stream.el9, openshift-hyperkube 4.14.0-202310210404.p0.gf67aeb3.assembly.stream.el8, openshift-hyperkube 4.14.0-202310210404.p0.gf67aeb3.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g55e0cd1.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-cluster-bootstrap v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g93fba13.assembly.stream, +34 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:5009
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 openshift4/frr-rhel9 v4.15.0-202407191406.p0.ga8191c0.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-ptp-rhel9 v4.15.0-202407181207.p0.g9e30824.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ptp-must-gather-rhel8 v4.15.0-202407120536.p0.g6fb51fd.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/metallb-rhel9-operator v4.15.0-202407191406.p0.g359620b.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-ptp-rhel9-operator v4.15.0-202407181207.p0.g6fb51fd.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-cloud-event-proxy-rhel9 v4.15.0-202407171806.p0.g0268bd8.assembly.stream.el9, +14 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2024:4698
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 openshift4/ose-sriov-network-webhook-rhel9 v4.16.0-202407100107.p0.gb04c39c.assembly.stream.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4468
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.10 openshift-gitops-kam 1.10.0-34.el8, openshift-gitops-kam-redistributable 1.10.0-34.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:5407
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-agent 1.3.0-14, rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-operator 1.3.0-12, rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-downloader 1.3.0-14, rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-operator-bundle 1.3.0-26
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3479
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.14 for RHEL 9 odf4/rook-ceph-rhel9-operator v4.14.0-71
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:6832
  • Red Hat cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-rhel9 Red Hat Cryostat 2 cryostat/cryostat-rhel8-operator Red Hat Custom Metric Autoscaler operator for Red Hat Openshift custom-metrics-autoscaler/custom-metrics-autoscaler-rhel8, custom-metrics-autoscaler/custom-metrics-autoscaler-rhel8-operator Red Hat Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 python-pbr 5.11.1-0.1.el9, python-wrapt 1.14.1-1.el9, python3-pbr 5.11.1-0.1.el9, python3-wrapt 1.14.1-1.el9, python-fixtures 4.0.1-1.el9, python-tenacity 6.3.1-1.el9, +135 more Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel9, openshift-logging/opa-openshift-rhel8, openshift-logging/lokistack-gateway-rhel8, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-proxy-rhel8, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator Red Hat Logical Volume Manager Storage lvms4/topolvm-rhel9
    +12 more products
    Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers rhmtc/openshift-migration-velero-rhel8 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-controller-rhel9, migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-must-gather-api-rhel8 Red Hat Node Maintenance Operator workload-availability/node-maintenance-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Run Once Duration Override Operator run-once-duration-override-operator/run-once-duration-override-rhel9, run-once-duration-override-operator/run-once-duration-override-operator-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Secondary Scheduler Operator openshift-secondary-scheduler-operator/secondary-scheduler-operator-rhel8 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/volsync-rhel8, rhacm2/lighthouse-agent-rhel9, rhacm2/search-aggregator-rhel8, rhacm2/management-ingress-rhel8, rhacm2/submariner-gateway-rhel8, rhacm2/iam-policy-controller-rhel8, +3 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-sdn-rhel8, openshift4/ose-multus-cni, openshift4/ose-descheduler, openshift4/ose-contour-rhel8, openshift4/ose-coredns-rhel9, redhat/redhat-operator-index, +47 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 fmt 9.1.0-1.el9, catch 3.3.2-1.el9, gmock 1.13.0-1.el9, gtest 1.13.0-1.el9, cri-tools 1.27.0-2.1.el8, cri-tools 1.27.0-2.1.el9, +587 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 rhcos 415.92.202402201450-0, rhcos 415.92.202405070140-0, openshift4/ose-cli v4.15.0-202402082307.p0.g48dcf59.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-cli v4.15.0-202405070739.p0.g7693229.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-tests v4.15.0-202402210808.p0.gb71aeaf.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-tests v4.15.0-202405070739.p0.g9260d49.assembly.stream.el8, +374 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 openshift4/frr-rhel9 v4.16.0-202407091337.p0.g395104b.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/metallb-rhel9 v4.16.0-202407031636.p0.g83eca94.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-ptp-rhel9 v4.16.0-202407031636.p0.g4447317.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/sriov-cni-rhel9 v4.16.0-202407031636.p0.geda1a74.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-dpu-cni-rhel9 v4.16.0-202407031636.p0.g62b1a32.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-dpu-daemon-rhel9 v4.16.0-202407031636.p0.g62b1a32.assembly.stream.el9, +42 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Assisted Installer 1 rhai-tech-preview/assisted-installer-rhel8, rhai-tech-preview/assisted-installer-agent-rhel8 Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/odf-topolvm-rhel8, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/volume-replication-rhel8-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

3 more not affected in the full advisory

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/elazarl/goproxy/issues/502 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/elazarl/goproxy
<0.0.0-20230731152917-f99041a5c027
0.0.0-20230731152917-f99041a5c027

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.