VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-40586

CVSS score7.5 HIGH

EPSS probability0.72%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2023-08-25

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. Due to the misuse of `log.Fatalf`, the application using coraza crashed after receiving crafted requests from attackers. The application will immediately crash after receiving a malicious request that triggers an error in `mime.ParseMediaType`. This issue was patched in version 3.0.1.

Weakness classification

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references

security-advisories@github.com — Patch
security-advisories@github.com — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory