CVE-2023-27704 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published 12 Apr 2023 Updated 10 Feb 2025

An attacker can cause a denial of service in Void Tools via a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2023-27704?

CVE-2023-27704 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Apr 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Void Tools Everything lower than v1.4.1.1022 was discovered to contain a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

Weakness: CWE-1333

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-27704?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Voidtools Everything.

How do I fix CVE-2023-27704?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-27704 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-27704 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-27704 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-fxx2-62xv-vcph.