OpenBao vulnerable to denial of service via malicious JSON request processing
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-g46h-2rq9-gw5m | OpenBao has potential Denial of Service vulnerability when processing malicious unauthenticated JSON requests |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.688% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Openbao
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| Description | OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. In OpenBao versions prior to 2.4.1, JSON objects after decoding may use significantly more memory than their serialized version. It is possible to craft a JSON payload to maximize the factor between serialized memory usage and deserialized memory usage, similar to a zip bomb, with factors reaching approximately 35. This can be used to circumvent the max_request_size configuration parameter which is intended to protect against denial of service attacks. The request body is parsed into a map very early in the request handling chain before authentication, which means an unauthenticated attacker can send a specifically crafted JSON object and cause an out-of-memory crash. Additionally, for requests with large numbers of strings, the audit subsystem can consume large quantities of CPU. The vulnerability is fixed in version 2.4.1. | |
| Title | OpenBao vulnerable to denial of service via malicious JSON request processing | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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cvssV3_1
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