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GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r CVE-2024-20716

Magento Open Source allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Medium Packagist
Severity
0.0 / 10
Medium · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.87%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 58.94% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Fix
2.4.6-p4
Upgrade magento/community-edition to this version or later

Description

Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.6-p3, 2.4.5-p5, 2.4.4-p6 and earlier are affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to an application denial-of-service. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, causing the application to slow down or crash. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Affected versions

Packagist

PackageVulnerableFixed in
magento/community-edition 1 listed versions No fix yet
magento/community-edition 1 listed versions No fix yet
magento/community-edition 1 listed versions No fix yet
magento/community-edition
>= 2.4.6-p1, < 2.4.6-p4
2.4.6-p4
magento/community-edition
>= 2.4.5-p1, < 2.4.5-p6
2.4.5-p6
magento/community-edition
>= 2.4.4-p1, < 2.4.4-p7
2.4.4-p7
magento/project-community-edition
<= 2.0.2
No fix yet

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

magento/community-edition Packagist → 2.4.6-p4

composer
composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.6-p4

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
None
Integrity (vulnerable system)
None
Availability (vulnerable system)
High
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
None
Integrity (subsequent systems)
None
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

CVSS 3.1 4.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Weakness

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place. The login application should be protected against DoS attacks as much as possible. Limiting the database access, perhaps by caching result sets, can help minimize the resources expended. To further limit the potential for a DoS attack, consider tracking the rate of requests received from users and blocking requests that exceed a defined rate threshold.
  • Architecture and Design: Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed. The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question. The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.
  • Architecture and Design: Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
  • Implementation: Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.

References

Timeline

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  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-wh92-6q6g-px7j
Magento Community Edition Improper Input Validation vulnerability
Critical Known exploited Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-m8cj-3v68-3cxj
Magento Open Source affected by an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability
Critical Known exploited Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-f8fv-f786-9933
Magento improper input validation vulnerability
Critical Known exploited Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-qvwr-p3hj-j6jf
Magento vulnerable to privilege escalation due to incorrect authorization
Medium Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-pcrx-r49h-x2w5
Magento vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Medium Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-r355-75hw-r8jf
Magento allows incorrect authorization
Medium Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-2768-5wmv-cfff
Magento vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
High Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-69x9-xp2j-w8g8
Magento provides incorrect authorization through a security feature bypass
High Also affects magento/community-edition
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