🛡️ ALPINE-CVE-2023-38039
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API. However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-09-15
Updated 2026-06-10
Modified 2026-06-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
curl — 8.3.0-r0

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