CVE-2023-4540

Published September 5th, 2023

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CVSS v3

7.5

HIGH

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

Description

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.

daurnimator/lua-http

HTTP Library for Lua. Supports HTTP(S) 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0; client and server.

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