Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-36121 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in Netty Netty-Incubator-Codec-Ohttp

CVSS 9.1 - CRITICAL

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

NONE

network

low complexity

netty

CWE-190

critical

NVD

Published: 2024-06-04

Updated: 2024-06-11

Summary

netty-incubator-codec-ohttp is the OHTTP implementation for netty. BoringSSLAEADContext keeps track of how many OHTTP responses have been sent and uses this sequence number to calculate the appropriate nonce to use with the encryption algorithm. Unfortunately, two separate errors combine which would allow an attacker to cause the sequence number to overflow and thus the nonce to repeat.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Netty Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.3 Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.4 Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.5 Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.6 Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.7 Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.8 Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.9 Netty Netty Incubator Codec Ohttp 0.0.10	8

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Forced Integer Overflow
This attack forces an integer variable to go out of range. The integer variable is often used as an offset such as size of memory allocation or similarly. The attacker would typically control the value of such variable and try to get it out of range. For instance the integer in question is incremented past the maximum possible value, it may wrap to become a very small, or negative number, therefore providing a very incorrect value which can lead to unexpected behavior. At worst the attacker can execute arbitrary code.

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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