Auth-Exploitable SBOM Upload Decompression in Bombastic
CVE-2024-3508 Published on April 25, 2024
Bzip2: compressed content bomb leads to denial of service of bombastic api
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-3508 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public.
Weakness Types
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2024-3508 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
What is an Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerability?
The software allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment.
CVE-2024-3508 has been classified to as an Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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