Vulnerability · Published Dec 19, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-56200Uncontrolled Recursion and Asymmetric Resource Consumption in Altair media/file proxy

High 8.6

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in altair from nexryai. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.6High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Altair is a fork of Misskey v12. Affected versions lack of request validation and lack of authentication in the image proxy for compressing and resizing remote files could allow attacks that could affect availability, such as by abnormally increasing the CPU usage of the server on which this software is running or placing a heavy load on the network it is using. This issue has been fixed in v12.24Q4.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
nexryai	altair	< v12.24Q4.1

Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-405 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://github.com/nexryai/altair/security/advisories/GHSA-3pfm-hp96-pfgv x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/security/advisories/GHSA-gq5q-c77c-v23600 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/nexryai/altair/commit/20bad5155a8d73f8d807c6c1ae0f7b8041331be8 x_refsource_MISC