8.1
HIGH
CVE-2023-2512
Cloudflare Workerd FormData API Integer Overflow
Description

Prior to version v1.20230419.0, the FormData API implementation was subject to an integer overflow. If a FormData instance contained more than 2^31 elements, the forEach() method could end up reading from the wrong location in memory while iterating over elements. This would most likely lead to a segmentation fault, but could theoretically allow arbitrary undefined behavior. In order for the bug to be exploitable, the process would need to be able to allocate 160GB of RAM. Due to this, the bug was never exploitable on the Cloudflare Workers platform, but could theoretically be exploitable on deployments of workerd running on machines with a huge amount of memory. Moreover, in order to be remotely exploited, an attacker would have to upload a single form-encoded HTTP request of at least tens of gigabytes in size. The application code would then have to use request.formData() to parse the request and formData.forEach() to iterate over this data. Due to these limitations, the exploitation likelihood was considered Low. A fix that addresses this vulnerability has been released in version v1.20230419.0 and users are encouraged to update to the latest version available.

INFO

Published Date :

May 12, 2023, 11:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

May 26, 2023, 6:52 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

2.2
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-2512 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Cloudflare workerd
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/releases/tag/v1.20230419.0 Release Notes
https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/security/advisories/GHSA-8vx6-69vg-c46f Vendor Advisory

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 26, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/releases/tag/v1.20230419.0 No Types Assigned https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/releases/tag/v1.20230419.0 Release Notes
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/security/advisories/GHSA-8vx6-69vg-c46f No Types Assigned https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/security/advisories/GHSA-8vx6-69vg-c46f Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-190
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cloudflare:workerd:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* versions up to (excluding) 1.20230419.0
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.13 }} 0.01%

score

0.48496

percentile

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