CVE-2023-4540 - CVE House

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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-4540

DoS in lua-http library

0 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

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. Such a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop. This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Artur Łącki

References

Affected Vendor

Daurnimator

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Affected Software

lua-http

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 5th, 2023

Last Modified: April 4th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service