CVE-2024-56200 HIGH

CVE-2024-56200: Uncontrolled Recursion and Asymmetric Resource Consumption in Altair media/file proxy

Vendor Nexryai
Product altair
Weakness CWE-400
Published December 19, 2024
Last update December 20, 2024

CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Altair is a fork of Misskey v12. Affected versions lack of request validation and lack of authentication in the image proxy for compressing and resizing remote files could allow attacks that could affect availability, such as by abnormally increasing the CPU usage of the server on which this software is running or placing a heavy load on the network it is using. This issue has been fixed in v12.24Q4.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 19, 2024 CVE published
December 20, 2024 Record updated