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CVE-2023-27371
n/a n/a — GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS (Denial of Service) due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the po…
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N H N N U N N H 5.9 .0125 69.0 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
n/a n/a – —
TIMELINE
Feb 28 Reserved by mitre
Feb 28 Published (CNA: mitre)
Oct 14 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2023-27371. Public exploit reference added.
Description
GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS (Denial of Service) due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the postprocessor.c MHD_create_post_processor() method. This allows an attacker to remotely send a malicious HTTP POST packet that includes one or more '\0' bytes in a multipart/form-data boundary field, which - assuming a specific heap layout - will result in an out-of-bounds read and a crash in the find_boundary() function.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| February 28, 2023 | Reserved | Reserved by mitre |
| February 28, 2023 | Published | Published (CNA: mitre) |
| October 14, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2023-27371. Public exploit reference added. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| n/a | n/a | — | n/a | — |
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