CVE-2023-6180

MEDIUM

tokio-boring 4.0.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

The tokio-boring library in version 4.0.0 is affected by a memory leak issue that can lead to excessive resource consumption and potential DoS by resource exhaustion. The set_ex_data function used by the library did not deallocate memory used by pre-existing data in memory each time after completing a TLS connection causing the program to consume more resources with each new connection.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 24.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-401 CWE-400 CWE-404
Status published

Affected Products (2)

cloudflare/boring
crates.io/tokio-boring < 4.1.0crates.io

Timeline

Published Dec 05, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026