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CVE-2026-40303: zrok: Unauthenticated DoS via unbounded memory allocation in striped session cookie parsing

CVE-2026-40303 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.5 · Published 2026-04-16

Technologies: github.com/openziti/zrok (Go), github.com/openziti/zrok/v2 (Go). Vendors: Go.

Executive brief

**Summary** endpoints.GetSessionCookie parses an attacker-supplied cookie chunk count and calls make([]string, count) with no upper bound before any token validation occurs. The function is reached on every request to an OAuth-protected proxy share, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger gigabyte-scale heap allocations per request, leading to process-level OOM termination or repeated goroutine panics. Both publicProxy and dynamicProxy are affected.

- Attack Vector: Network — exploitable via a single HTTP request with a crafted Cookie header. - Attack Complexity: Low — no preconditions or chaining required; the attacker only needs to know the cookie name (publicly derivable from any OAuth redirect). - Privileges Required: None — reached before JWT validation or any authentication check. - User Interaction: None. - Scope: Unchanged — impact is confined to the affected proxy process. - Confidentiality Impact: None. - Integrity Impact: None.

Availability Impact: High — sustained or concurrent requests cause OOM process termination, taking down the proxy for all users of all shares it serves.

**Affected Components** - endpoints/oauthCookies.go — GetSessionCookie (line 81) - endpoints/publicProxy/authOAuth.go — handleOAuth (line 50) — call site, pre-auth - endpoints/dynamicProxy/cookies.go — getSessionCookie (line 29) — call site

Affected products

  • Go github.com/openziti/zrok
  • Go github.com/openziti/zrok/v2

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