CVE-2023-6180 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2023-6180 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 05/12/2023 | CVE Updated: 02/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2023
Source: cloudflare | Vendor: Cloudflare | Product: tokio-boring
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2023-6180 Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 5.3 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

l➤ Exploitability Metrics:
    Attack Vector (AV)* NETWORK
    Attack Complexity (AC)* LOW
    Privileges Required (PR)* NONE
    User Interaction (UI)* NONE
    Scope (S)* UNCHANGED

l➤ Impact Metrics:
    Confidentiality Impact (C)* NONE
    Integrity Impact (I)* NONE
    Availability Impact (A)* LOW

Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-400
CWE Name: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Source: Cloudflare

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-ID: CAPEC-130
CAPEC Description: CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation


Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).