Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-4540
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server.
Such a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop.
This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 26.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
References
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
- https://https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
Products affected by CVE-2023-4540
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cpe:2.3:a:daurnimator:lua-http:0.4