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GHSA-PCW9-XW4X-JGJ3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-06-23 21:30 – Updated: 2025-02-28 15:30

Details

The HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-34188 (GCVE-0-2023-34188)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-28 13:07

Summary

The HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers. By sending a single attack payload over TCP, an attacker can cause an infinite loop in which the server continuously reparses that payload, and does not respond to any other requests.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

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	https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/commit/466309…
	https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/2197
	https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/compare/7.9...7.10
	https://blog.narfindustries.com/blog/narf-discove…

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GHSA-PCW9-XW4X-JGJ3

CVE-2023-34188 (GCVE-0-2023-34188)

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