CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4540
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
Description
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 configurations
• daurnimator lua-http 0.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/ cert.pl
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6 Patch
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6 Patch
- https://https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/ https: