h2oai/h2o-3 · Security
H2O Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Large GZIP Parsing
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-6w62-3jvj-mfj6
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-7765
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In h2oai/h2o-3 version 3.46.0.2, a vulnerability exists where uploading and repeatedly parsing a large GZIP file can cause a denial of service. The server becomes unresponsive due to memory exhaustion and a large number of concurrent slow-running jobs. This issue arises from the improper handling of highly compressed data, leading to significant data amplification.
CWEs
- CWE-409 · Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7765 ↗
- https://huntr.com/bounties/0e58b1a5-bdca-4e60-af92-09de9c76a9ff ↗
- https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-3/blob/7d418fa19d3ab434f742818e37f891bef9102c97/h2o-core/src/main/java/water/parser/ParseDataset.java#L900 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6w62-3jvj-mfj6 ↗