CVE-2023-43669

CVSS 3.1 Score 7.5 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Sep 21, 2023
Updated: Feb 16, 2024

Summary

CVE-2023-43669 is a denial-of-service vulnerability impacting the Tungstenite crate before version 0.20.1 used in Rust. An attacker can exploit this flaw by sending an excessively long HTTP header during a client handshake. The length of the header triggers numerous parse attempts, leading to significant CPU consumption and service disruption for minutes. Each parse attempt also processes large amounts of data, potentially causing memory exhaustion.

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Affected Products

  • Fedora Operating System

Affected Vendors

  • Fedora Project
  • SnapView

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