What is CVE-2023-27371?

CVE-2023-27371 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Libmicrohttpd, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2023-02-28.

How severe is CVE-2023-27371?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Gnu Libmicrohttpd

CVE-2023-27371

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…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (65.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Gnu Libmicrohttpd
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Mailing List)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-27371?: CVE-2023-27371 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Libmicrohttpd, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2023-02-28.
How severe is CVE-2023-27371?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.