CVE-2023-20882 — In Cloud foundry routing release versions from 0

In Cloud foundry routing release versions from 0.262.0 and prior to 0.266.0,a bug in the gorouter process can lead to a denial of service of applications hosted on Cloud Foundry. Under the right circumstances, when client connections are closed prematurely, gorouter marks the cur

01What is this vulnerability?

In Cloud foundry routing release versions from 0.262.0 and prior to 0.266.0,a bug in the gorouter process can lead to a denial of service of applications hosted on Cloud Foundry. Under the right circumstances, when client connections are closed prematurely, gorouter marks the currently selected backend as failed and removes it from the routing pool.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Cloud Foundry Routing release	Routing release versions from 0.262.0 and prior to 0.266.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-16T14:39:05.654Z

09References

• www.cloudfoundry.org — https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2023-20882-gorouter-pruning-via-client-dis…