CVE-2023-34188

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-34188
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-06-23 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-06 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers. By sending a single attack payload over TCP, an attacker can cause an infinite loop in which the server continuously reparses that payload, and does not respond to any other requests.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cesanta Mongoose All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Added check for negative value for HTTP Content-Length header · cesanta/mongoose@4663090 · GitHub MISC github.com
Comparing 7.9...7.10 · cesanta/mongoose · GitHub MISC github.com
Added check for negative value for HTTP Content-Length header by allanpark · Pull Request #2197 · cesanta/mongoose · GitHub MISC github.com
Narf Discovers Critical Vulnerabilities in Cesanta Mongoose HTTP Server MISC blog.narfindustries.com
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