CVE-2023-23916

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23916
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-23916.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-23916
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-02-23T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:53:59.637362533Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "hackerone",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "Fixed in 7.88.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/23xxx/CVE-2023-23916.json"
}
References

Affected packages