Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-6180
The tokio-boring library in version 4.0.0 is affected by a memory leak issue that can lead to excessive resource consumption and potential DoS by resource exhaustion. The set_ex_data function used by the library did not deallocate memory used by pre-existing data in memory each time after completing a TLS connection causing the program to consume more resources with each new connection.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 23.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.3
References
Products affected by CVE-2023-6180
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cpe:2.3:a:cloudflare:boring:4.0.0