CVE-2022-4008 Denial of service in Octopus Tentacle

What is CVE-2022-4008?

CVE-2022-4008 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Octopus Octopus Server, published on 10 May 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to upload a zipbomb file as a task which results in Denial of Service

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4008?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Octopus Octopus Server.

How do I fix CVE-2022-4008?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-4008 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2022-4008 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-4008 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Octopus Octopus Server

• CVE-2022-2572 Auth bypass in Octopus Server Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-2778 Security feature bypass in Octopus Server Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-11320 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-2782 Auth bypass in Octopus Server Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-2975 Race condition in Octopus Server High 8.8

All Octopus Octopus Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-mc83-5hwv-9c74.