CVE-2023-23916

curl: HTTP multi-header compression denial of service

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 15, 2023

Updated · October 15, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Curl package. A malicious server can insert an unlimited number of compression steps. This decompression chain could result in out-of-memory errors.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling