CVE-2023-23916An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed mult…
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An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-770
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- hackerone
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 14, 2026
Affected products
Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP siemens:simatic_s7_1500_cpu_1518_4_pn_dp_mfp (from the name) | from V3.1.0 before V3.1.5 | CISA ADP |
Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP siemens:simatic_s7_1500_cpu_1518f_4_pn_dp_mfp (from the name) | from V3.1.0 before V3.1.5 | CISA ADP |
Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP siemens:siplus_s7_1500_cpu_1518_4_pn_dp_mfp (from the name) | from V3.1.0 before V3.1.5 | CISA ADP |
haxx curl haxx:curl | from 7.57.0 before 7.88.0 | NVD |
fedoraproject fedora fedoraproject:fedora | 36 | NVD |
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux | 10.0; 11.0 | NVD |
netapp h300s_firmware netapp:h300s_firmware | all versions | NVD |
netapp h500s_firmware netapp:h500s_firmware | all versions | NVD |
netapp h700s_firmware netapp:h700s_firmware | all versions | NVD |
netapp h410s_firmware netapp:h410s_firmware | all versions | NVD |
netapp clustered_data_ontap netapp:clustered_data_ontap | all versions | NVD |
splunk universal_forwarder splunk:universal_forwarder | from 8.2.0 before 8.2.12; from 9.0.0 before 9.0.6; 9.1.0 | NVD |
References
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1826048exploit, issue-tracking
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00035.htmlmailing-list, third-party-advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQKE6TXYDHOTFHLTBZ5X73GTKI7II5KO/vendor-advisory, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5365vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0006/third-party-advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
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