Vulnerability · Published Aug 14, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2023-40296
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
async-sockets-cpp through 0.3.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in ReceiveFrom and Receive in udpsocket.hpp when processing malformed UDP packets.