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🛡️ CVE-2023-3635 — okio

🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-195 NVD
5.9
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Description

Okio Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error vulnerability

GzipSource does not handle an exception that might be raised when parsing a malformed gzip buffer. This may lead to denial of service of the Okio client when handling a crafted GZIP archive, by using the GzipSource class.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-3635 is classified as CWE-195: Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error. The product uses a signed primitive and performs a cast to an unsigned primitive, which can produce an unexpected value if the value of the signed primitive can not be represented using an unsigned primitive.

Affected software

CVE-2023-3635 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • com.squareup.okio:okio (fixed in 1.17.6)
  • com.squareup.okio:okio-jvm (from 2.0.0-RC1 up to 3.4.0)
  • okio (from 2.0.0 up to 3.4.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 July 2023 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
research.jfrog.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

com.squareup.okio:okio has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-195: Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error) in other software:

CVE-2023-3635 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-195
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.squareup.okio:okio — 1.17.6
com.squareup.okio:okio-jvm 2.0.0-RC1 3.4.0
okio 2.0.0 3.4.0

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