Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting cpp-httplib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CPPHTTPLIB-10735580
  • published14 Jul 2025
  • disclosed10 Jul 2025
  • creditOtávio Silva

Introduced: 10 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-53629  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the Transfer-Encoding: chunked process. An attacker can exhaust server memory resources by sending specially crafted HTTP requests with chunked transfer encoding or without a defined content length.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1