ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-4540
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540
Upstream
Published
2023-09-05T08:15:40Z
Modified
2026-11-03T06:32:59Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server. Such a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop.

This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.17
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"
Alpine:v3.18
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"
Alpine:v3.19
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"
Alpine:v3.20
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"
Alpine:v3.21
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"
Alpine:v3.22
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"
Alpine:v3.23
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"
Alpine:v3.24
lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-r2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-4540.json"