Thank you for the notice, and the already fixed releases =)

Is there a JIRA or associated PR with the fix? I’m not seeing a specific fix in 
the changelogs for 9.3.0 and 8.12.0.

Thanks,
Matt Pavlovich

> On May 25, 2021, at 2:51 AM, Emond Papegaaij <emond.papega...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Description:
> 
> A DNS proxy and possible amplification attack vulnerability in
> WebClientInfo of Apache Wicket allows an attacker to trigger arbitrary
> DNS lookups from the server when the X-Forwarded-For header is not
> properly sanitized. This DNS lookup can be engineered to overload an
> internal DNS server or to slow down request processing of the Apache
> Wicket application causing a possible denial of service on either the
> internal infrastructure or the web application itself.
> 
> This issue affects Apache Wicket Apache Wicket 9.x version 9.2.0 and
> prior versions; Apache Wicket 8.x version 8.11.0 and prior versions;
> Apache Wicket 7.x version 7.17.0 and prior versions and Apache Wicket
> 6.x version 6.2.0 and later versions.
> 
> Mitigation:
> 
> Sanitize the X-Forwarded-For header by running an Apache Wicket
> application behind a reverse HTTP proxy. This proxy should put the
> client IP address in the X-Forwarded-For header and not pass through
> the contents of the header as received by the client.
> 
> The application developers are recommended to upgrade to:
> - Apache Wicket 7.18.0
> <https://wicket.apache.org/news/2021/04/06/wicket-7.18.0-released.html>
> - Apache Wicket 8.12.0
> <https://wicket.apache.org/news/2021/03/31/wicket-8.12.0-released.html>
> - Apache Wicket 9.0.0
> <https://wicket.apache.org/news/2021/03/30/wicket-9.3.0-released.html>
> 
> Credit:
> 
> Apache Wicket would like to thank Jonathan Juursema from
> Topicus.Healthcare for reporting this issue.
> 
> Apache Wicket Team
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