Attacker Value
Unknown
(0 users assessed)
Exploitability
Unknown
(0 users assessed)
User Interaction
Required
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Network
0

CVE-2023-23916

Disclosure Date: February 23, 2023
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Description

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.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
6.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
2.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
Required
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • debian,
  • fedoraproject,
  • haxx,
  • netapp,
  • splunk

Products

  • clustered data ontap -,
  • curl,
  • debian linux 10.0,
  • debian linux 11.0,
  • fedora 36,
  • h300s firmware -,
  • h410s firmware -,
  • h500s firmware -,
  • h700s firmware -,
  • universal forwarder,
  • universal forwarder 9.1.0
Technical Analysis