CVE-2023-37279Public exploitNetwork attack vector

Server crash via unbounded days parameter

Published Sep 20, 2023 · Updated Sep 24, 2024

Denial of service in the Faktory web dashboard before 1.8.0 allows remote attackers to crash the server via a crafted days query. The dashboard parses the days URL parameter without a range check and uses the resulting excessive value to size a string slice, exhausting memory. The dashboard must be network-accessible, but no authentication or user interaction is required, and the demonstrated consequence is an out-of-memory server exit.

CVSS severity7.5
High
EPSS probability0.77%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

Denial of service in the Faktory web dashboard before 1.8.0 allows remote attackers to crash the server via a crafted days query. The dashboard parses the days URL parameter without a range check and uses the resulting excessive value to size a string slice, exhausting memory. The dashboard must be network-accessible, but no authentication or user interaction is required, and the demonstrated consequence is an out-of-memory server exit.

The record

CVE
CVE-2023-37279
Published
Sep 20, 2023
Updated
Sep 24, 2024
Vendor
Contributed Systems
Product
Faktory
Classifications
CWE-770, CWE-789, T1499.004
Attack vector
network
Privileges
unauthenticated

Timeline

How it unfolded

  1. Sep 20, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Sep 24, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=0 <1.8.0
  2. Affected versionversion=< 1.8.0

What conditions does exploitation require?

Attack vectornetwork
Required privilegesunauthenticated

What is affected?

Contributed Systems · Faktoryversion=0 <1.8.0; version=< 1.8.0

Published CVSS scores

7.5GitHub, Inc.CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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 exploitPublished

Weakness, pattern, technique

CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-789Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
T1499.004Application or System Exploitation

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