CVE-2024-10051 Unauthenticated Denial of Service in shaunwei/realchar
An unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by sending malformed multipart boundary characters, exhausting server resources.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-10051?
CVE-2024-10051 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in shaunwei/realchar, published on 20 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Realchar version v0.0.4 is vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service (DoS) attack. The vulnerability exists in the file upload request handling, where appending characters, such as dashes (-), to the end of a multipart boundary in an HTTP request causes the server to continuously process each character. This leads to excessive resource consumption and renders the service unavailable. The issue is unauthenticated and does not require any user interaction, impacting all users of the service.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10051?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Shaunwei Realchar.
How do I fix CVE-2024-10051?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10051 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-2024-10051 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10051 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rc69-h6h5-3q4x.