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🛡️ CVE-2023-54365 — go

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Traefik vulnerable to HTTP/2 request causing denial of service

Impact

A vulnerability CVE-2023-39325 exists in [Go managing HTTP/2 requests](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/iNNxDTCjZvo/m/UDd7VKQuAAAJ?pli=1), which impacts Traefik. This vulnerability could be exploited to cause a denial of service.

References

  • [CVE-2023-44487](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487)
  • [CVE-2023-39325](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39325)

Patches

  • https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.10.5
  • https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta4

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, 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:L/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: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • 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-2023-54365 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2023-54365 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • github.com/traefik/traefik
  • go (from 1.21.0 up to 1.21.3)
  • golang
  • openshift-ai
  • traefik

Timeline and source

Published on 17 October 2023 and last revised on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
groups.google.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/traefik/traefik 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-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-09

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/traefik/traefik — —
go 1.21.0 1.21.3
golang — —
openshift-ai — —
traefik — —

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