Alta Aware — 1012: Golang security vulnerabilities in net/http and cmd/go

Release Date

2nd of February 2024.

Overview

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It was discovered that the net/http package in Go did not limit the amount of chunked data that is actually read, which could lead to a denial of service condition.

A vulnerability in cmd/go allowed for go get to unexpectedly fallback to the insecure git:// protocol, potentially leading to a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected Products

• Ava Aware:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions before 6.4.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 6.5.0.
• Ava Cameras:
  • All Stable upgrade Channel versions before 6.4.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 6.5.0.
• Ava Cloud: before 7th December 2023.

Unaffected Products

• Ava Aware:

  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 6.4.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 6.5.0.

• Ava Cameras:

  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 6.4.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 6.5.0.

• Ava Cloud: from 7th December 2023

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Ava Aware Beta upgrade channel version 6.5.0 and Stable upgrade channel version 6.4.5.

It is highly recommended that all installations running an affected version are upgraded to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Alta Video User Interface.

A fix was deployed to the Ava Cloud on 7th December 2023. Ava Cloud customers do not need to take any additional action.

This issue has been fixed in Ava Camera Beta upgrade channel version 6.5.0 and Stable upgrade channel version 6.4.5.

It is highly recommended that all Ava Camera installations running an affected version upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Alta Video User Interface for Ava managed cameras and the Ava Camera User Interface for unmanaged Ava cameras.

Vulnerability Information

• CVE: CVE-2023-39326 and CVE-2023-45285
• CVSSv3 score: 7.5 (High)
• CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue found and reported by the Go team.

Disclosure Timeline

• 05/12/2023 Issue found by the Go team.
• 05/12/2023 Root cause established
• 05/12/2023 Fix identified
• 07/12/2023 Patched Ava Cloud released
• 07/12/2023 Patched Ava Aware (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 12/12/2023 Patched Ava Aware (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 07/12/2023 Patched Ava Cameras (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 12/12/2023 Patched Ava Cameras (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 02/02/2024 Vulnerability publicly disclosed