TI-2023-18909 Aliases CVE-2023-37279 GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv

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

HIGH 72CWE-770Published 2023-09-20 · Updated 2024-09-24

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

Faktory is a language-agnostic persistent background job server. Prior to version 1.8.0, the Faktory web dashboard can suffer from denial of service by a crafted malicious url query param `days`. The vulnerability is related to how the backend reads the `days` URL query parameter in the Faktory web dashboard. The value is used directly without any checks to create a string slice. If a very large value is provided, the backend server ends up using a significant amount of memory and causing it to crash. Version 1.8.0 fixes this issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00919 60th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Fixed faktory (contribsys): 1.8.0github.com/contribsys/faktory (Go): 1.8.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
contribsys	faktory	before 1.8.0	1.8.0	Patch available	CNA
—	github.com/contribsys/faktory (Go)	before 1.8.0	1.8.0	Patch available	GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv

faktory Vendorcontribsys Affected before 1.8.0 Fixed in 1.8.0 Patch available CNA
github.com/contribsys/faktory (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.8.0 Fixed in 1.8.0 Patch available GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:contribsys:faktory::::::go::*	before 1.8.0	Vulnerable	contribsys

cpe:2.3:a:contribsys:faktory:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:* Versions before 1.8.0 Vulnerable ·contribsys

Remediation

Fix · CNA faktory (contribsys) Fixed in 1.8.0
Fix · GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv github.com/contribsys/faktory (Go) Fixed in 1.8.0 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-37279
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv

References

Sources

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