CVE-2022-36124 Memory overconsumption in Avro Rust SDK

What is CVE-2022-36124?

CVE-2022-36124 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 for a Reader to consume memory beyond the allowed constraints and thus lead to out of memory on the system. 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.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-36124?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-avro and avro. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Avro.

How do I fix CVE-2022-36124?

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-2022-36124 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-36124 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) Critical 9.2
• CVE-2023-39410 Apache Avro Java SDK: Memory when deserializing untrusted data in Avro Java SDK High 7.5
• CVE-2022-35724 Denial of service while reading data in Avro Rust SDK High 7.5
• CVE-2022-36125 Integer overflow when reading corrupted .avro file in Avro Rust SDK High 7.5
• CVE-2021-43045 Possible DOS vulnerabilities in C# Avro SDK High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wcm8-86x6-8mv3, PYSEC-2022-43180.