🛡️ CVE-2023-23916
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-770 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-23
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-03-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
clustered-data-ontap
curl 7.57.0 7.88.0
debian-linux
fedora
h300s-firmware
h410s-firmware
h500s-firmware
h700s-firmware
universal-forwarder

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking https://hackerone.com/reports/1826048
Exploit, Issue Tracking https://hackerone.com/reports/1826048

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