CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-6180

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2023-12-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-12-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-401, CWE-404

Description

The tokio-boring library in version 4.0.0 is affected by a memory leak issue that can lead to excessive resource consumption and potential DoS by resource exhaustion. The set_ex_data function used by the library did not deallocate memory used by pre-existing data in memory each time after completing a TLS connection causing the program to consume more resources with each new connection.

Affected configurations

• cloudflare boring 4.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness

References