CVE-2023-34188

Published Jun 23, 2023

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description: The HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers. By sending a single attack payload over TCP, an attacker can cause an infinite loop in which the server continuously reparses that payload, and does not respond to any other requests.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:cesanta:mongoose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "D772458E-F58A-4241-B9DC-E5DBDE529957",
            "versionEndExcluding": "7.10"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References