VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-40711

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-08-20
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

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references