CVE-2023-4540

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-755: CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
• https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
• https://https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
• https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
• https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/

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