CVE-2023-34188 (GCVE-0-2023-34188)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-23 00:00
Modified
2025-02-28 13:07
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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