CVE-2023-43669

Summary

CVECVE-2023-43669
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-21 06:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:21:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Tungstenite crate before 0.20.1 for Rust allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (minutes of CPU consumption) via an excessive length of an HTTP header in a client handshake. The length affects both how many times a parse is attempted (e.g., thousands of times) and the average amount of data for each parse attempt (e.g., millions of bytes).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Snapview Tungstenite All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Update changelog · snapview/tungstenite-rs@8b3ecd3 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CWE - CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity (4.11) MISC cwe.mitre.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: rust-warp-0.3.5-6.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
crates.io/crates/tungstenite/versions MISC crates.io
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: rust-warp-0.3.5-6.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: rust-warp-0.3.5-6.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: rust-tokio-tungstenite-0.20.1-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
1215563 – (CVE-2023-43669) VUL-0: CVE-2023-43669: TRACKERBUG: tungstenite-rs: DoS with long HTTP request header MISC bugzilla.suse.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: rust-tokio-tungstenite-0.20.1-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
denial of service with long HTTP request header · Issue #376 · snapview/tungstenite-rs · GitHub MISC github.com
[GHSA-9mcr-873m-xcxp] Add fixed version by bayandin · Pull Request #2752 · github/advisory-database · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE-2023-43669 MISC security-tracker.debian.org
2240110 – (CVE-2023-43669) CVE-2023-43669 rust-tungstenite: remote denial of service MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: rust-warp-0.3.5-6.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Tungstenite allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service · CVE-2023-43669 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 284565 Fedora Security Update for rust (FEDORA-2023-e72bf7b92e)
  • 284567 Fedora Security Update for rust (FEDORA-2023-9c4142423a)
  • 285244 Fedora Security Update for rust (FEDORA-2023-91a66898d2)
  • 356892 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for firefox : ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-017
  • 995366 Rust (Rust) Security Update for tungstenite (GHSA-9mcr-873m-xcxp)
  • 996783 Rust (Rust) Security Update for surrealdb (GHSA-58j9-j2fj-v8f4)
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