CVE-2023-27371GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS (Denial of Service) due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 30% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS (Denial of Service) due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the postprocessor.c MHD_create_post_processor() method. This allows an attacker to remotely send a malicious HTTP POST packet that includes one or more '\0' bytes in a multipart/form-data boundary field, which - assuming a specific heap layout - will result in an out-of-bounds read and a crash in the find_boundary() function.
Timeline
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AC:H/AV:N/A:H/C:N/I:N/PR:N/S:U/UI:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- https://git.gnunet.org/libmicrohttpd.git/commit/?id=6d6846e20bfdf4b3eb1b592c97520a532f724238 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/0xhebi/CVEs/tree/main/GNU%20Libmicrohttpd (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libmicrohttpd/2023-02/msg00000.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230330 [SECURITY] [DLA 3374-1] libmicrohttpd security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-31147 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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