CVE-2023-4540: Daurnimator Lua-HTTP

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server. Such a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop. This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.

Affected products

• Daurnimator Lua-HTTP: version 0.4 only

Published 2023-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.