CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exploit the restbed framework by sending excessively large HTTP request headers, leading to unbounded memory allocation on the server. This can result in server memory exhaustion, potentially causing service disruptions or crashes. Organizations using affected versions of restbed should prioritize patching this vulnerability to mitigate the risk of denial-of-service attacks.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
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Original NVD Description
restbed through 5.0.0 buffers HTTP request headers without enforcing a maximum size limit, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server memory. Attackers can open TCP connections and stream bytes indefinitely without sending the header delimiter, forcing the server to allocate unbounded heap memory until the process is killed.