CVE-2023-38039 (GCVE-0-2023-38039)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-15 03:21 – Updated: 2025-12-02 20:06
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Summary
When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API. However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Affected: 8.3.0 , < 8.3.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.84.0 , < 7.84.0 (semver)
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