CVE-2023-24534

Excessive memory allocation in net/http and net/textproto

High · published April 6, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
79.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service. With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01888 · 79.4th percentile
Published
2023-04-06T15:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 APR 15:50Z
    Excessive memory allocation in net/http and net/textproto
    cvelistv5