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CVE-2023-28320

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 EPSS 2.66%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2023-05-26 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.9. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2023-28320
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
2.66%

Original NVD Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.

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