CVE-2023-4540 DoS in lua-http library

2023-09-0507:46:45

CWE-755

CERT-PL

www.cve.org

vulnerability

lua-http

dos

crafted request

denial of service

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

37.2%

JSON

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.

This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "collectionURL": "https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "product": "lua-http",
    "vendor": "Daurnimator",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "commit ddab283",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  }
]