CVE-2023-25824

HIGH

mod_gnutls 0.9.0-0.12.0 - Denial of Service via TLS Read Operation Timeout

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mod_gnutls is a TLS module for Apache HTTPD based on GnuTLS. Versions from 0.9.0 to 0.12.0 (including) did not properly fail blocking read operations on TLS connections when the transport hit timeouts. Instead it entered an endless loop retrying the read operation, consuming CPU resources. This could be exploited for denial of service attacks. If trace level logging was enabled, it would also produce an excessive amount of log output during the loop, consuming disk space. The problem has been fixed in commit d7eec4e598158ab6a98bf505354e84352f9715ec, please update to version 0.12.1. There are no workarounds, users who cannot update should apply the errno fix detailed in the security advisory.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942737#25

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0109
EPSS Percentile 61.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (1)
mod_gnutls_project/mod_gnutls 0.9.0 - 0.12.1
Published Feb 23, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026