CVE-2023-28320

MEDIUM

curl < 8.1.0 - Denial of Service via Synchronous Resolver Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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
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