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CVE-2026-52880GO-2026-5686GHSA-W4C6-7R69-W7J9

Klever-Go: REST API slow-header connection exhaustion via Gin Engine.Run

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.7.18
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. Versions from 1.7.14 through 1.7.17 are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable denial of service. Both REST APIs are started with the Gin Engine.Run convenience method, which serves requests through Go's default HTTP server with no ReadHeaderTimeout, ReadTimeout, or MaxHeaderBytes configured. As a result, incoming connections that never complete their request headers are held open indefinitely. When a REST listener is reachable beyond localhost through the documented all-interface bind or a Docker port-publish deployment, a single unauthenticated client can open many slow-header connections and hold them open until server file descriptors are exhausted, preventing the API from accepting new connections. This renders the REST API unavailable to legitimate clients. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.18.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • klever-io klever-go

    From 1.7.14 · fixed in 1.7.18

  • github.com/klever-io/klever-goGo

    From 1.7.14 · fixed in 1.7.18

References 2

GitHub · klever-io/klever-go