CVE-2023-27478 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Libmemcached

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
Awesomized LibmemcachedAwesome LibmemcachedDebian Libmemcached+7 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 7
Latest updateMar 14

Description

libmemcached-awesome is an open source C/C++ client library and tools for the memcached server. `libmemcached` could return data for a previously requested key, if that previous request timed out due to a low `POLL_TIMEOUT`. This issue has been addressed in version 1.1.4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are several ways to workaround or lower the probability of this bug affecting a given deployment. 1: use a reasonably high `POLL_TIMEOUT` setting, like the default. 2: use separate libmemcach…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 2.5

Affected Packages11 packages

▶NVDawesome/libmemcached1.0.18 — 1.1.4
▶debiandebian/libmemcached< libmemcached 1.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
OSV
CVE-2023-27478: libmemcached-awesome is an open source C/C++ client library and tools for the memcached server↗2023-03-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
Disclosure of unrelated data in libmemcached-awesome↗2023-03-14
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Red Hat
libmemcached: Disclosure of unrelated data↗2023-03-07
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Debian
CVE-2023-27478: libmemcached - libmemcached-awesome is an open source C/C++ client library and tools for the me...↗2023
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