Resource exhaustion in Next.js - CVE-2023-46298

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Resource exhaustion in Next.js - CVE-2023-46298

Published: March 20, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU105892
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46298
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to Next.js lacks a cache-control header and thus empty prefetch responses may sometimes be cached by a CDN. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Next.js
IBM Security QRadar Network Threat Analytics

How to mitigate CVE-2023-46298

Install updates from vendor's website.

Next.js - update to 13.4.20.13
IBM Security QRadar Network Threat Analytics - update to 1.4.0

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