Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-45813

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 18 October 2023

Published
18 October 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0077 73.9th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-45813 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Validators Project Validators. Its CVSS base score is 4.6 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Torbot is an open source tor network intelligence tool. In affected versions the `torbot.modules.validators.validate_link function` uses the python-validators URL validation regex. This particular regular expression has an exponential complexity which allows an attacker to cause an application crash using a…

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well-crafted argument. An attacker can use a well-crafted URL argument to exploit the vulnerability in the regular expression and cause a Denial of Service on the system. The validators file has been removed in version 4.0.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

torbot project
torbot
≤ 4.0.0
validators project
validators
0.11.0, 0.20.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References