CVE-2023-37279: Contribsys Faktory

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Faktory is a language-agnostic persistent background job server. Prior to version 1.8.0, the Faktory web dashboard can suffer from denial of service by a crafted malicious url query param `days`. The vulnerability is related to how the backend reads the `days` URL query parameter in the Faktory web dashboard. The value is used directly without any checks to create a string slice. If a very large value is provided, the backend server ends up using a significant amount of memory and causing it to crash. Version 1.8.0 fixes this issue.

Affected products

• Contribsys Faktory: before 1.8.0 (fixed in 1.8.0)

Published 2023-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.