# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 20 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-r894-pxpx-j3m6

## 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.

Weakness: CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type), CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3508?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2024-3508 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3508 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-3508 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3508 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3508/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3508/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3508
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3508
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3508

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3508/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.