CVE-2023-6992

ADVISORY - nist

Summary

Cloudflare version of zlib library was found to be vulnerable to memory corruption issues affecting the deflation algorithm implementation (deflate.c). The issues resulted from improper input validation and heap-based buffer overflow. A local attacker could exploit the problem during compression using a crafted malicious file potentially leading to denial of service of the software. Patches: The issue has been patched in commit 8352d10 https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib/commit/8352d108c05db1bdc5ac3bdf834dad641694c13c . The upstream repository is not affected.

EPSS Score: 0.00021 (0.046)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Buffer Over-read

Improper Input Validation

Out-of-bounds Write


NIST

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2023-6992
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

1.4

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

4medium

Alpine

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2023-6992
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY

Photon

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY ID

CVE-2023-6992

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

5.5medium