CVE-2023-37279

moderate-risk
Published 2023-09-20

Faktory is a language-agnostic persistent background job server. Prior to version 1.8.0, the Faktory web dashboard can suffer from denial of service by a crafted malicious url query param `days`. The vulnerability is related to how the backend reads the `days` URL query parameter in the Faktory web dashboard. The value is used directly without any checks to create a string slice. If a very large value is provided, the backend server ends up using a significant amount of memory and causing it to crash. Version 1.8.0 fixes this issue.

Do I need to act?

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0.92% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Faktory

Affected Vendors

Contribsys

References (2)

Exploit https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/security/advisories/GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv
Exploit https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/security/advisories/GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal