CVE-2023-34188
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:03 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMongoose
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
PoC
Description
The HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers. By sending a single attack payload over TCP, an attacker can cause an infinite loop in which the server continuously reparses that payload, and does not respond to any other requests.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250228-0001/SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-OtherCWE-1284
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