CVE-2023-40711

Published Aug 20, 2023

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description: Veilid before 0.1.9 does not check the size of uncompressed data during decompression upon an envelope receipt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory abort) via crafted packet data, as exploited in the wild in August 2023.
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: CWE-787

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:veilid:veilid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "0693CDB3-B229-4A6D-A68A-44B0C28FC869",
            "versionEndExcluding": "0.1.9"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References