VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-24791

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-24791

Severity

8

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

07/02/2024

Created

01/21/2025

Added

01/20/2025

Modified

02/04/2025

Description

The net/http HTTP/1.1 client mishandled the case where a server responds to a request with an "Expect: 100-continue" header with a non-informational (200 or higher) status. This mishandling could leave a client connection in an invalid state, where the next request sent on the connection will fail. An attacker sending a request to a net/http/httputil.ReverseProxy proxy can exploit this mishandling to cause a denial of service by sending "Expect: 100-continue" requests which elicit a non-informational response from the backend. Each such request leaves the proxy with an invalid connection, and causes one subsequent request using that connection to fail.

Solution(s)

• vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-24791
• CVE - 2024-24791