Vulnerability · Published Mar 29, 2023 · Assigned by rapid7

CVE-2023-28507Memory exhaustion in LZ4 decompression in UniRPC daemon

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in UniData from Rocket Software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 61% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Rocket Software UniData versions prior to 8.2.4 build 3003 and UniVerse versions prior to 11.3.5 build 1001 or 12.2.1 build 2002 suffer from a memory-exhaustion issue, where a decompression routine will allocate increasing amounts of memory until all system memory is exhausted and the forked process crashes.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Rocket Software UniData 0 – before 8.2.43.3003
Rocket Software UniVerse 0 – before 11.3.5.10010 – before 12.2.1.2002

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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