Denial of Service via arithmetic overflow in connection monitoring pagination

Summary

NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.14.3 and 2.12.12, a client able to send account-scoped connection monitoring requests could crash the server by supplying Connz pagination Offset and Limit values that overflowed internal arithmetic before the response window was safely bounded. This issue is fixed in versions 2.14.3 and 2.12.12. A flaw was found in NATS Server. This is achieved by providing pagination offset and limit values that cause an arithmetic overflow, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). CVE.org and NVD independently assess this issue at different severities than Red Hat because CVE.org uses a Changed scope (S:C) in its CVSS vector, treating the crash as impacting components beyond the NATS Server process itself. Red Hat, consistent with NVDs own scoring, assesses the impact as scoped to the NATS Server process (Scope Unchanged), resulting in a CVSS score of 6.5 and a Moderate impact rating. Only account-scoped connection-monitoring requests can trigger the arithmetic overflow, and no Red Hat product runs an externally-reachable, unauthenticated NATS Server monitoring endpoint by default. Weakness: CWE-190. Affected Red Hat products: Multicluster Global Hub; Red Hat Ceph Storage 5; Red Hat Ceph Storage 6; Red Hat Ceph Storage 7; Red Hat Ceph Storage 8; Red Hat Ceph Storage 9.