CVE-2023-40518 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting LiteSpeed OpenLiteSpeed versions prior to 1.7.18, stemming from insufficient validation of HTTP request headers. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high integrity impact with low attack complexity over the network. While the CVSS score is 7.5, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.7.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:litespeedtech:openlitespeed:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.