Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-50248

Medium

Published: 13 December 2023

Published
13 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.7th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-50248 is a medium-severity Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency (CWE-130) vulnerability in Okfn Ckan. Its CVSS base score is 4.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

CKAN is an open-source data management system for powering data hubs and data portals. Starting in version 2.0.0 and prior to versions 2.9.10 and 2.10.3, when submitting a POST request to the `/dataset/new` endpoint (including either the auth cookie or…

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the `Authorization` header) with a specially-crafted field, an attacker can create an out-of-memory error in the hosting server. To trigger this error, the attacker need to have permissions to create or edit datasets. This vulnerability has been patched in CKAN 2.10.3 and 2.9.10.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

okfn
ckan
2.0 — 2.9.10 · 2.10.0 — 2.10.3

Mitigating Controls

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

References