CVE-2023-34041 — Cloud foundry routing release versions prior to 0

Cloud foundry routing release versions prior to 0.278.0 are vulnerable to abuse of HTTP Hop-by-Hop Headers. An unauthenticated attacker can use this vulnerability for headers like B3 or X-B3-SpanID to affect the identification value recorded in the logs in foundations.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cloud foundry routing release versions prior to 0.278.0 are vulnerable to abuse of HTTP Hop-by-Hop Headers. An unauthenticated attacker can use this vulnerability for headers like B3 or X-B3-SpanID to affect the identification value recorded in the logs in foundations.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cloud Foundry	Routing	all
Cloud Foundry	CF Deployment	all

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2023-09-08T07:22:00.607Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T15:54:14.253Z

09References

• www.cloudfoundry.org — https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/abuse-of-http-hop-by-hop-headers-in-cloud-foun…