Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-6180 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Cloudflare Boring 4.0.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
LOW Summary
The tokio-boring library in version 4.0.0 is affected by a memory leak issue that can lead to excessive resource consumption and potential DoS by resource exhaustion. The set_ex_data function used by the library did not deallocate memory used by pre-existing data in memory each time after completing a TLS connection causing the program to consume more resources with each new connection.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |