CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2023-34188
High (7.5) in cesanta mongoose. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-1284
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- cesanta:mongoose
References
- https://blog.narfindustries.com/blog/narf-discovers-critical-vulnerabilities-in-cesanta-mongoose-http-server
- https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/commit/4663090a8fb036146dfe77718cff612b0101cb0f
- https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/compare/7.9...7.10
- https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/2197
- https://blog.narfindustries.com/blog/narf-discovers-critical-vulnerabilities-in-cesanta-mongoose-http-server