Bug 983822 (CVE-2013-4120) - CVE-2013-4120 katello: DoS in API OAuth authentication
Summary: CVE-2013-4120 katello: DoS in API OAuth authentication
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2013-4120
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 980866 983832 988661 995654
Blocks: 1000138 1011266
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Reported: 2013-07-12 02:59 UTC by Garth Mollett
Modified: 2023-05-12 15:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-08-05 13:57:26 UTC
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Description Garth Mollett 2013-07-12 02:59:00 UTC 
Marek Hulan <mhulan> reports:

Katello API OAuth authentication is vulnerable to DoS. User can set consumer_key to any value which is later converted to symbol. This can lead to memory exhaustion.
Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2013-07-15 07:11:06 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Marek Hulán of the Red Hat Foreman team.
Comment 6 Bryan Kearney 2014-06-27 14:32:34 UTC 
I think the exposure here is pretty small. The consumer key is passed as an http header. Per http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html the default max header size is 8k and the default concurrent threads is 200.  That gets me to about 2 meg of memory consumption.
Comment 7 Bryan Kearney 2014-08-05 13:57:26 UTC 
Per discussions with Tjay, closing this out.
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