CVE-2023-34188
Published: 23 June 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-34188 is a high-severity Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input (CWE-1284) vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 28.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-38288
Vulnerability details
The HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers. By sending a single attack payload over TCP, an attacker can cause an infinite loop in which the server continuously reparses that payload, and does not respond…
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to any other requests.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.