CVE-2023-43669

Published Sep 21, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The Tungstenite crate before 0.20.1 for Rust allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (minutes of CPU consumption) via an excessive length of an HTTP header in a client handshake. The length affects both how many times a parse is attempted (e.g., thousands of times) and the average amount of data for each parse attempt (e.g., millions of bytes).

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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9mcr-873m-xcxp Tungstenite allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 2, 2024, 7:44 PM
Reserved
Sep 21, 2023, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 21, 2023, 6:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:26 AM