CVE-2023-6180
MEDIUMtokio-boring 4.0.0 - Memory Corruption
Title source: llmDescription
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