CVE-2023-28320
MEDIUMcurl < 8.1.0 - Denial of Service via Synchronous Resolver Race Condition
Title source: llmDescription
A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/1929597
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230609-0009/
Third Party Advisory
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843
Third Party Advisory
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
Third Party Advisory
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/52
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/48
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/47
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12
Scores
CVSS v3
5.9
EPSS
0.0064
EPSS Percentile
70.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-362
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (8)
apple/macos
11.0 - 11.7.9
haxx/curl
< 8.1.0
netapp/clustered_data_ontap
netapp/h300s_firmware
netapp/h410s_firmware
netapp/h500s_firmware
netapp/h700s_firmware
netapp/ontap_antivirus_connector
Published
May 26, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026