CVE-2023-27478: Awesome Libmemcached

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libmemcached-awesome is an open source C/C++ client library and tools for the memcached server. `libmemcached` could return data for a previously requested key, if that previous request timed out due to a low `POLL_TIMEOUT`. This issue has been addressed in version 1.1.4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are several ways to workaround or lower the probability of this bug affecting a given deployment. 1: use a reasonably high `POLL_TIMEOUT` setting, like the default. 2: use separate libmemcached connections for unrelated data. 3: do not re-use libmemcached connections in an unknown state.

Affected products

• Awesome Libmemcached: from 1.0.18, before 1.1.4 (fixed in 1.1.4)

Published 2023-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.