CVE-2023-23916

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The number of acceptable \"links\" in this \"decompression chain\" wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a \"malloc bomb\", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors."}]}, "problemtype": {"problemtype_data": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "CWE-770"}]}]}, "data_version": "4.0", "CVE_data_meta": {"ID": "CVE-2023-23916", "ASSIGNER": "support@hackerone.com"}}, "impact": {"baseMetricV3": {"cvssV3": {"scope": "UNCHANGED", "version": "3.1", "baseScore": 6.5, "attackVector": "NETWORK", "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "userInteraction": "REQUIRED", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE"}, "impactScore": 3.6, "exploitabilityScore": 2.8}}, "publishedDate": "2023-02-23T20:15Z", "configurations": {"nodes": [{"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true, "versionEndExcluding": "7.88.0", "versionStartIncluding": "7.57.0"}]}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}]}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}, {"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}]}, {"children": [{"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}]}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h300s:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": false}]}], "operator": "AND", "cpe_match": []}, {"children": [{"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}]}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h500s:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": false}]}], "operator": "AND", "cpe_match": []}, {"children": [{"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}]}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h700s:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": false}]}], "operator": "AND", "cpe_match": []}, {"children": [{"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}]}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:h:netapp:h410s:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": false}]}], "operator": "AND", "cpe_match": []}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:a:netapp:clustered_data_ontap:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}]}, {"children": [], "operator": "OR", "cpe_match": [{"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:9.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true}, {"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true, "versionEndExcluding": "9.0.6", "versionStartIncluding": "9.0.0"}, {"cpe23Uri": "cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe_name": [], "vulnerable": true, "versionEndExcluding": "8.2.12", "versionStartIncluding": "8.2.0"}]}], "CVE_data_version": "4.0"}, "lastModifiedDate": "2025-03-12T19:15Z"}