# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-3040"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-06-14T11:54:51.131Z"
updatedAt: "2025-01-02T19:21:32.890Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:58.683Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-3040"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-3040.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3040"
title: "Out of Bounds Access Leading to Undefined Behavior"
summary: "A debug function in the lua-resty-json package, up to commit id 3ef9492bd3a44d9e51301d6adc3cd1789c8f534a (merged in PR #14) contained an out of bounds access bug that could have allowed an attacker to launch a DoS if the function was used to parse untrusted input data. It is important to note that because this debug function was only used in tests and demos, it was not exploitable in a normal environment.\n"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14","changes":[{"at":"14","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"Cloudflare","product":"lua-resty-json","packageName":"lua-resty-json","platforms":["Windows","Linux","MacOS","x86","64 bit","32 bit"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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