Access of Uninitialized Pointer in h2o - CVE-2023-30847

 

Access of Uninitialized Pointer in h2o - CVE-2023-30847

Published: April 27, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU75555
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-30847
CWE-ID: CWE-824
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 access to uninitialized pointer when processing certain type of invalid HTTP request. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack or leak information to back end HTTP servers.


Affected software

h2o

How to mitigate CVE-2023-30847

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.


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