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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-10912

High
7.5/10

Summary

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the "file upload" feature of fschat package. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of form-data with a large "filename" in the "file upload" request. An attacker can exploit this by sending a payload with an excessively large "filename", causing the server to become overwhelmed and unavailable to legitimate users.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published