CVE-2023-37279

Faktory Web Dashboard can lead to denial of service(DOS) via malicious user input

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 20, 2023 at 09:27 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:07 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFaktory

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
SSVC
PoC

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.8.0
Affected range stops below 1.8.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.5HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770CWE-789

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