CVE-2023-5289 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitHub repository ikus06

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitHub repository ikus060/rdiffweb prior to 2.8.4.

01What is this vulnerability?

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitHub repository ikus060/rdiffweb prior to 2.8.4.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
ikus060	ikus060/rdiffweb	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-09-29T13:59:17.250Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-23T17:13:06.116Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/8d0e0804-d3fd-49fe-bfa4-7a91135767ce
• github.com — https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/06f89b43469aae70e8833e55192721523f86c…