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Traefik docker container using 100% CPU

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 4, 2023 in traefik/traefik • Updated Dec 5, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 (Go)

Affected versions

< 2.10.6

Patched versions

2.10.6
gomod github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (Go)
< 3.0.0-beta5
3.0.0-beta5

Description

Summary

The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration.

Details

While attempting to set up Traefik to handle traffic for Docker containers, I observed in the webUI a rule with the following information:

Host(traefik-service) | webwebsecure | traefik-service@docker | traefik-service

I assumed that this is something internal; however, I wondered why it would have a host rule on the web entrypoint configured.

So I have send a request with that hostname with curl -v --resolve "traefik-service:80:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" http://traefik-service. That made my whole server unresponsive.

I assume the name comes from a docker container with that name, traefik itself:

localhost ~ # docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                                   COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS         PORTS                                                                                                NAMES
d1414e74aec7   traefik:v2.10                                           "/entrypoint.sh trae…"   4 minutes ago       Up 4 minutes   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp, 127.0.0.1:8080->8080/tcp   traefik.service

PoC

  1. Start traefik with docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -p 80:80 --name foo -p 8080:8080 traefik:v2.10 --api.insecure=true --providers.docker

  2. curl -v --resolve "foo:80:127.0.0.1" http://foo

looks like this creates an endless loop of request.

Knowing the name of the docker container seems to be enough to trigger this, if the docker backend is used.

Impact

Server is unreachable and uses 100% CPU

References

@nmengin nmengin published to traefik/traefik Dec 4, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 4, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 5, 2023
Reviewed Dec 5, 2023
Last updated Dec 5, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.056%
(25th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2023-47633

GHSA ID

GHSA-6fwg-jrfw-ff7p

Source code

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