CVE-2023-40296

HIGH 7.5CVE-2023-40296 · Published 14/08/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-40296 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting async-sockets-cpp (eminfedar).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.89%, higher than 59.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
async-sockets-cpp eminfedar	`≤ 0.3.1`	No fix yet

async-sockets-cpp through 0.3.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in ReceiveFrom and Receive in udpsocket.hpp when processing malformed UDP packets.

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