Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-51075

HighPublic PoCDDoS

Published: 27 December 2023

Published
27 December 2023
Modified
05 September 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0013 31.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-51075 is a high-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Hutool Hutool. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 31.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

hutool-core v5.8.23 was discovered to contain an infinite loop in the StrSplitter.splitByRegex function. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via manipulation of the first two parameters.

CWE(s)
CWE-835

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

Vulnerability triggers infinite loop in StrSplitter.splitByRegex with empty string inputs, causing OOM or StackOverflowError, enabling endpoint DoS via application exploitation.

Affected Assets

hutool
hutool
≤ 5.8.24

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

References