[GO-2023-1705] Excessive resource consumption in net/http, net/textproto and mime/multipart

Severity High
Affected Packages 4
Fixed Packages 4
CVEs 1

Multipart form parsing can consume large amounts of CPU and memory when
processing form inputs containing very large numbers of parts.

This stems from several causes:

  1. mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm limits the total memory a parsed multipart form can consume. ReadForm can undercount the amount of memory consumed, leading it to accept larger inputs than intended.
  2. Limiting total memory does not account for increased pressure on the garbage collector from large numbers of small allocations in forms with many parts.
  3. ReadForm can allocate a large number of short-lived buffers, further increasing pressure on the garbage collector.

The combination of these factors can permit an attacker to cause an program that
parses multipart forms to consume large amounts of CPU and memory, potentially
resulting in a denial of service. This affects programs that use
mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm, as well as form parsing in the net/http package
with the Request methods FormFile, FormValue, ParseMultipartForm, and
PostFormValue.

With fix, ReadForm now does a better job of estimating the memory consumption of
parsed forms, and performs many fewer short-lived allocations.

In addition, the fixed mime/multipart.Reader imposes the following limits on the
size of parsed forms:

  1. Forms parsed with ReadForm may contain no more than 1000 parts. This limit may be adjusted with the environment variable GODEBUG=multipartmaxparts=.
  2. Form parts parsed with NextPart and NextRawPart may contain no more than 10,000 header fields. In addition, forms parsed with ReadForm may contain no more than 10,000 header fields across all parts. This limit may be adjusted with the environment variable GODEBUG=multipartmaxheaders=.
Package Affected Version
pkg:golang/net/textproto >= 1.20.2, < 1.19.8
pkg:golang/net/textproto >= 1.20.2, < 1.20.3
pkg:golang/mime/multipart >= 1.20.2, < 1.19.8
pkg:golang/mime/multipart >= 1.20.2, < 1.20.3
Type Package URL Namespace Name / Product Version Distribution / Platform Arch Patch / Fix
Fixed pkg:golang/net/textproto net textproto = 1.19.8
Affected pkg:golang/net/textproto net textproto >= 1.20.2 < 1.19.8
Fixed pkg:golang/net/textproto net textproto = 1.20.3
Affected pkg:golang/net/textproto net textproto >= 1.20.2 < 1.20.3
Fixed pkg:golang/mime/multipart mime multipart = 1.19.8
Affected pkg:golang/mime/multipart mime multipart >= 1.20.2 < 1.19.8
Fixed pkg:golang/mime/multipart mime multipart = 1.20.3
Affected pkg:golang/mime/multipart mime multipart >= 1.20.2 < 1.20.3
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