CVE-2023-23916
An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 6.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 1.70%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 77
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (9)
CWE
- CWE-770
- CWE-770
- CWE-770
Referencias
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1826048
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00035.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQKE6TXYDHOTFHLTBZ5X73GTKI7II5KO/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0006/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5365
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1826048
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00035.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQKE6TXYDHOTFHLTBZ5X73GTKI7II5KO/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0006/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5365
JSON original (NVD)
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