CVE-2024-31617 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Attackers can cause denial of service in OpenLiteSpeed web servers by exploiting improper handling of chunked encoding.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-31617?

CVE-2024-31617 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 May 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenLiteSpeed before 1.8.1 mishandles chunked encoding.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-31617?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Litespeedtech Openlitespeed.

How do I fix CVE-2024-31617?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-31617 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-2024-31617 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-31617 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5wp7-92wc-c55h.

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