Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4540 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator Lua-Http 0.4
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server. Such a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop. This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
- https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6
- https://https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/