CVE-2025-54581

Impact

### Summary Untrusted, user-controlled data from the HTTP Proxy-Authorization header can induce a denial of service state. ### Details Untrusted data is extracted from the user-controlled HTTP Proxy-Authorization header and passed to Extension::try_from and flows into parse_ttl_extension where it is parsed as a TTL value. If an attacker supplies a TTL of zero (e.g. by using a username such as 'configuredUser-ttl-0'), the modulo operation 'timestamp % ttl' will cause a division by zero panic, causing the server to crash causing a denial-of-service. The code assumed to be responsible for this can be found here: https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/blob/ab304c3854bf8480be577039ada0228907ba0923/src/extension.rs#L173-L183 ### PoC 1. Download and run the latest version of vproxy 2. Send a cUrl request like the following, adjusting address and port as necessary: ```curl -x "http://test-ttl-0:test@127.0.0.1:8101" https://google.com``` 3. Wait for a cUrl error indicating "Proxy CONNECT aborted" 4. View logs from the vproxy server 5. Observe that the vproxy server crashed due to a divide-by-zero panic ### Impact The resulting crash renders the proxy server unusable until it is reset. Finally, one last note: I'm reporting this on behalf of another researcher at Black Duck. Credit for discovery should be attributed to David Bohannon ([dbohannon](https://github.com/dbohannon))

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References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• GitHub advisory
• https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/commit/aa1bf64c5e7f1c471395f9f29175ffc1b16a1079
• https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/releases/tag/v2.4.0
• https://github.com/0x676e67/vproxy/security/advisories/GHSA-7h24-c332-p48c
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7h24-c332-p48c
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54581