CVE-2023-43768 (GCVE-0-2023-43768)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:33
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Couchbase Server 6.6.x through 7.2.0, before 7.1.5 and 7.2.1. Unauthenticated users may cause memcached to run out of memory via large commands.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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