What is GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv?

GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Linkerd resource exhaustion vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv cover?

GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-43915. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv?

GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv?

GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv affects 1 product, including: go/github.com/linkerd/linkerd2:\u003c 0.0.0-20250212165942-faa3f617eef5.

GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rvMediumCVSS 6.5

Linkerd resource exhaustion vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 5, 2025

Last Modified

May 20, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-43915 →

📋 Description

In Linkerd edge releases before edge-25.2.1, and Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd releases 2.13.0–2.13.7, 2.14.0–2.14.10, 2.15.0–2.15.7, 2.16.0–2.16.4, and 2.17.0–2.17.1, resource exhaustion can occur for Linkerd proxy metrics.

🎯 Affected products1

go/github.com/linkerd/linkerd2:< 0.0.0-20250212165942-faa3f617eef5

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43915
https://docs.buoyant.io/security/advisories/2025-01
https://www.buoyant.io/resources
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3664
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-42mr-jpwh-m9rv