# CVE-2023-37279: Faktory Web Dashboard can lead to denial of service(DOS) via malicious user input

- Also known as: GHSA-X4HH-VJM7-G2JV, GO-2023-2067
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.0
- Published: 2023-09-20 · Updated: 2024-09-24

## Affected

- contribsys faktory: fixed in 1.8.0
- github.com/contribsys/faktory (Go): fixed in 1.8.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on contribsys faktory, github.com/contribsys/faktory, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/security/advisories/GHSA-x4hh-vjm7-g2jv

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