CVE-2023-40711

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    CVE-2023-40711

    Published: 20 Aug 2023Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Veilid before 0.1.9 does not check the size of uncompressed data during decompression upon an envelope receipt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory abort) via crafted packet data, as exploited in the wild in August 2023.

    References: https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40711.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40711

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -dfeecdde0de335964c298b8e00425f15188bc2f6

    Affected versions

    v0.1.8
    v0.1.7

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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