CVE-2020-15106

Improper Input Validation in etcd

Published Aug 5, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 1.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, a large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method. The size of a record is stored in the length field of a WAL file and no additional validation is done on this data. Therefore, it is possible to forge an extremely large frame size that can unintentionally panic at the expense of any RAFT participant trying to decode the WAL.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-0749 In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, a large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method. The size of a record is stored in the length field of a WAL file and no additional validation is done on this data. Therefore, it is possible to forge an extremely large frame size that can unintentionally panic at the expense of any RAFT participant trying to decode the WAL.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-p4g4-wgrh-qrg2 Panic due to malformed WALs in go.etcd.io/etcd
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5628-1 etcd vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5628-2 etcd vulnerabilities
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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 1:08 PM
Reserved
Jun 25, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 5, 2020, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:56 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 5, 2020, 12:00 AM