{"id":"CVE-2023-4540","details":"Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server. \nSuch a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop. \n\nThis issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.","modified":"2026-04-10T05:04:34.677090Z","published":"2023-09-05T08:15:40.017Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://cert.pl/posts/2023/09/CVE-2023-4540/"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8841c629cdef9d4c4f1913ddff5b806e49963071"},{"fixed":"ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.4"}]}}],"versions":["v0.4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4540.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}