CPU-Consuming Hot Loop Vulnerability in Chat Service

CPU-Consuming Hot Loop Vulnerability in Chat Service

CVE-2023-28356 · HIGH Severity

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

A vulnerability has been identified where a maliciously crafted message containing a specific chain of characters can cause the chat to enter a hot loop on one of the processes, consuming ~120% CPU and rendering the service unresponsive.

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