CVE-2023-25824CWE-835

mod_gnutls contains Infinite Loop on request read timeout

High · published February 23, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Mod_gnutls is a TLS module for Apache HTTPD based on GnuTLS. Versions from 0.9.0 to 0.12.0 (including) did not properly fail blocking read operations on TLS connections when the transport hit timeouts. Instead it entered an endless loop retrying the read operation, consuming CPU resources. This could be exploited for denial of service attacks. If trace level logging was enabled, it would also produce an excessive amount of log output during the loop, consuming disk space. The problem has been fixed in commit d7eec4e598158ab6a98bf505354e84352f9715ec, please update to version 0.12.1. There are no workarounds, users who cannot update should apply the errno fix detailed in the security advisory.

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
0.01091 · 65.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2023-02-23T21:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 FEB 21:45Z
    mod_gnutls contains Infinite Loop on request read timeout
    cvelistv5