{"id":"CVE-2023-27478","summary":"Disclosure of unrelated data in libmemcached-awesome ","details":"libmemcached-awesome is an open source C/C++ client library and tools for the memcached server. `libmemcached` could return data for a previously requested key, if that previous request timed out due to a low `POLL_TIMEOUT`. This issue has been addressed in version 1.1.4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are several ways to workaround or lower the probability of this bug affecting a given deployment. 1: use a reasonably high `POLL_TIMEOUT` setting, like the default. 2: use separate libmemcached connections for unrelated data. 3: do not re-use libmemcached connections in an unknown state.","aliases":["BIT-libmemcached-2023-27478","BIT-memcached-2023-27478","GHSA-wwmh-39wj-fx59"],"modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:49.373446467Z","published":"2023-03-07T17:55:39.172Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/27xxx/CVE-2023-27478.json","cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-200"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/releases/tag/1.1.4"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/27xxx/CVE-2023-27478.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/security/advisories/GHSA-wwmh-39wj-fx59"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27478"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached/issues/531"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached/commit/48dcc61a"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/awesomized/libmemcached","events":[{"introduced":"abd18855286e265eb25f4e76d48c19ce4f48fcfd"},{"fixed":"92d18858b417309f6bdee6bce464a4f3d6a375fd"},{"fixed":"48dcc61a"}],"database_specific":{"source":["CPE_RANGE","REFERENCES"],"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:awesome:libmemcached:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.0.18"},{"fixed":"1.1.4"}]}}],"versions":["1.1.3","1.1.2","1.1.1","1.1.0","1.1.0-beta3","1.1.0-beta2","1.1.0-beta1","post_cmake","pre_cmake","1.0.18"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-27478.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"}]}