CVE-2023-38039
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Resource exhaustion
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API. However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)62%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://hackerone.com/reports/2072338 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2072338Patch
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/17Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/34Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/37Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/38Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5DCZMYODALBLVOXVJEN2LF2MLANEYL4F/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6KGKB2JNZVT276JYSKI6FV2VFJUGDOJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEAWTYHC3RT6ZRS5OZRHLAIENVN6CCIS/