CVE-2024-2689 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-2689: Denial of Service if invalid UTF-8 sent

Vendor Temporal Technologies, Inc.
Product Temporal Server
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published April 3, 2024
Last update August 27, 2025

CVSS base score

4.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Denial of Service in Temporal Server prior to version 1.20.5, 1.21.6, and 1.22.7 allows an authenticated user who has permissions to interact with workflows and has crafted an invalid UTF-8 string for submission to potentially cause a crashloop. If left unchecked, the task containing the invalid UTF-8 will become stuck in the queue, causing an increase in queue lag. Eventually, all processes handling these queues will become stuck and the system will run out of resources. The workflow ID of the failing task will be visible in the logs, and can be used to remove that workflow as a mitigation. Version 1.23 is not impacted. In this context, a user is an operator of Temporal Server.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 3, 2024 CVE published
August 27, 2025 Record updated