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CVE-2023-37279

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-37279 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Faktory, a background job server, prior to version 1.8.0. An unauthenticated attacker can crash the Faktory web dashboard by providing a large integer value to the 'days' URL query parameter, leading to excessive memory consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) due to its network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:contribsys:faktory:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0077 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/contribsys/faktoryFixed in: 1.8.0
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jvhigh

Faktory Web Dashboard can lead to denial of service(DOS) via malicious user input

Sep 20, 2023

References

github.com / contribsys/faktory/security/advisories/GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv
ExploitVendor Advisory