CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2023-4540
High (7.5) in daurnimator lua-http. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-755
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- daurnimator:lua-http
References
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6