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Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

CVE-2023-50248

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

CKAN is an open-source data management system for powering data hubs and data portals. In versions 2.0 through 2.9.9, and 2.10.0 through 2.10.2, when submitting a "POST" request to the `/dataset/new` endpoint (including either the auth cookie or the `Authorization` header) with a specially-crafted field, an attacker can create an out-of-memory error in the hosting server. To trigger this error, the attacker needs to have permission to create or edit datasets.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-130 - Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

The software parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published