CVE-2023-27483Network attack vector

Service crash via unbounded slice index growth

Published Mar 9, 2023 · Updated Feb 25, 2025

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Crossplane crossplane-runtime before 0.16.1 and 0.17.0 through 0.19.1 allows remote attackers to crash services. Paved.SetValue accepts an unvalidated field-path index and expands the target slice to that index, permitting allocations up to a uint32-sized index. Exposure requires a consuming application to pass attacker-controlled paths to Paved.SetValue without its own index validation; applications that do not call this method are unaffected.

CVSS severity5.9
Medium
EPSS probability0.80%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Crossplane crossplane-runtime before 0.16.1 and 0.17.0 through 0.19.1 allows remote attackers to crash services. Paved.SetValue accepts an unvalidated field-path index and expands the target slice to that index, permitting allocations up to a uint32-sized index. Exposure requires a consuming application to pass attacker-controlled paths to Paved.SetValue without its own index validation; applications that do not call this method are unaffected.

The record

CVE
CVE-2023-27483
Published
Mar 9, 2023
Updated
Feb 25, 2025
Vendor
Crossplane
Product
crossplane-runtime
Classifications
CWE-789, CWE-20, T1499.004
Attack vector
network
Privileges
unauthenticated

Timeline

How it unfolded

  1. Mar 9, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Feb 25, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=< 0.16.1
  2. Affected versionversion=>= 0.17.0, < 0.19.2

What conditions does exploitation require?

Attack vectornetwork
Required privilegesunauthenticated

What is affected?

Crossplane · crossplane-runtimeversion=< 0.16.1; version=>= 0.17.0, < 0.19.2

Published CVSS scores

7.5NVDCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.9GitHub, Inc.CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Attacks

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Sep 10, 2026Sep 16, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 16, 2026
Latest daily unique IPsUnavailable
Prior 30-day averageUnavailable
SourceShadowserver honeypots (KEV)
Vectornetwork
Privilegesunauthenticated
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

Weakness, pattern, technique

CWE-789Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
CWE-20Improper Input Validation
T1499.004Application or System Exploitation Flood

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