CVE-2022-35724 Denial of service while reading data in Avro Rust SDK
Attackers can cause infinite loops and CPU exhaustion in Rust applications using the Avro library by providing malicious data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-35724?
CVE-2022-35724 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Avro, published on 9 Aug 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
It is possible to provide data to be read that leads the reader to loop in cycles endlessly, consuming CPU. This issue affects Rust applications using Apache Avro Rust SDK prior to 0.14.0 (previously known as avro-rs). Users should update to apache-avro version 0.14.0 which addresses this issue.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-35724?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-avro. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
apache-avro crates.io | All versions | 0.14.0 |
apache-avro crates.io | All versions | 0.14.0 |
Products include Apache Avro.
How do I fix CVE-2022-35724?
Upgrade apache-avro to 0.14.0 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2022-35724 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-35724 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Avro
- CVE-2024-47561 Apache Avro Java SDK: Arbitrary Code Execution when reading Avro schema (Java SDK)
- CVE-2023-39410 Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK
- CVE-2022-36124 Memory overconsumption in Avro Rust SDK
- CVE-2022-36125 Integer overflow when reading corrupted .avro file in Avro Rust SDK
- CVE-2021-43045 Possible DOS vulnerabilities in C# Avro SDK
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v456-chpw-6mmw.