CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedPodgrab is vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial-of-service attack due to unsynchronized access to shared data structures in its WebSocket handler. A remote attacker can exploit this by opening multiple WebSocket connections and sending messages in rapid succession, leading to a crash of the service that necessitates manual intervention to restore. Organizations using Podgrab should prioritize addressing this vulnerability to prevent potential service disruptions.
Public Exploit Signal
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Original NVD Description
Podgrab contains an unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability caused by unsynchronized concurrent access to shared maps (activePlayers and allConnections) in its WebSocket handler, where Wshandler and HandleWebsocketMessages goroutines read and write these maps without a mutex. A remote attacker can open multiple WebSocket connections to the /ws endpoint and send messages in a loop to trigger a Go runtime data race that crashes the process, causing a denial of service that requires operator intervention to restore service.