CVE-2024-31992

6.5 · MEDIUM

Published Apr 19, 2024 mealie CWE-400 EPSS 0.72% (51th pctl) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

CVE-2024-31992 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting mealie mealie. It was published on April 19, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

Technical Description

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the safe_scrape_html function utilizes a user-controlled URL to issue a request to a remote server, however these requests are not rate-limited. While there are efforts to prevent DDoS by implementing a timeout on requests, it is possible for an attacker to issue a large number of requests to the server which will be handled in batches based on the configuration of the Mealie server. The chunking of responses is helpful for mitigating memory exhaustion on the Mealie server, however a single request to an arbitrarily large external file (e.g. a Debian ISO) is often sufficient to completely saturate a CPU core assigned to the Mealie container. Without rate limiting in place, it is possible to not only sustain traffic against an external target indefinitely, but also to exhaust the CPU resources assigned to the Mealie container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from mealie. Update mealie to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status
mealie	mealie	>= 0, < 1.4.0	Affected

References

GitHub github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py#L27-L70 GitHub github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f GitHub github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368 GitHub securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/ GitHub github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py#L27-L70 GitHub github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f GitHub github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368 GitHub securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-31992?

CVE-2024-31992 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting mealie mealie. It was published on April 19, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2024-31992?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2024-31992?

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