What is CVE-2023-37279?

CVE-2023-37279 is a high-severity vulnerability in Contribsys Faktory, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-09-20.

How severe is CVE-2023-37279?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Contribsys Faktory

CVE-2023-37279

Faktory is a language-agnostic persistent background job server. Prior to version 1.8.0, the Faktory web dashboard can suffer from denial of service by a crafted malicious url query param `days`. The vulnerability is related to how the backend reads the `days` URL query parameter in the Faktory web dashboard. The value is used directly without any checks to create a string slice. If a very large value is provided, the backend server ends up using a significant amount of memory and causing it to crash. Version 1.8.0 fixes this issue.

EPSS: 0.008 (51.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Contribsys Faktory — versions < 1.8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-37279?: CVE-2023-37279 is a high-severity vulnerability in Contribsys Faktory, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-09-20.
How severe is CVE-2023-37279?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.