CVE-2023-6180

MEDIUM

tokio-boring 4.0.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0062
EPSS Percentile 44.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-401 CWE-400 CWE-404
Status published
Products (2)
cloudflare/boring 4.0.0
crates.io/tokio-boring 4.0.0 - 4.1.0crates.io
Published Dec 05, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026