CVE-2024-3508 Bzip2: compressed content bomb leads to denial of service of bombastic api
Authenticated users can cause denial of service by uploading compressed SBOMs that trigger excessive resource consumption during decompression.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-3508?
CVE-2024-3508 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer, published on 25 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was found in Bombastic, which allows authenticated users to upload compressed (bzip2 or zstd) SBOMs. The API endpoint verifies the presence of some fields and values in the JSON. To perform this verification, the uploaded file must first be decompressed.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3508?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Trusted Profile Analyzer.
How do I fix CVE-2024-3508?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3508 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-2024-3508 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3508 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r894-pxpx-j3m6.