CVE-2023-24534 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Standard Library NET Textproto
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 69.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 6
Latest updateJan 9
Description
HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denia…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
6GHSA▶
GHSA-8v5j-pwr7-w5f8: HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service↗2023-04-06
OSV▶
CVE-2023-24534: HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service↗2023-04-06