CVE-2023-37279
Prior to version 1.8.0, the Faktory web dashboard can suffer from denial of service by a crafted malicious url query param `days`.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.77%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.77% probability · 54th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770, CWE-789
- Affected
- contribsys/faktory
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/security/advisories/GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jvExploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/security/advisories/GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jvExploit, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.