CVE-2023-4540
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4540
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4540.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-4540
- Downstream
- Published
- 2023-09-05T07:46:45Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-21T02:50:06Z
- Severity
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- 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
- DoS in lua-http library
- Details
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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.
- Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "CERT-PL", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-755" ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/4xxx/CVE-2023-4540.json", "unresolved_ranges": [ { "extracted_events": [ { "range": [ { "fixed": "commit ddab283" } ], "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD", "strategy": "StandardRange" } ] } ] }- References
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- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/4xxx/CVE-2023-4540.json
- https://https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4540
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http
Affected packages
Git / github.com/daurnimator/lua-http
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http
- Events
- Database specific
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Show details
{ "extracted_events": [ { "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:daurnimator:lua-http:0.4:*:*:*:*:lua:*:*", "range": [ { "introduced": "0.4" }, { "last_affected": "0.4" } ], "source": "CPE_STRING" }, { "range": [ { "fixed": "ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6" } ], "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT" } ] }