CVE-2022-21822

EUVD-2022-1464 · Published Mar 18, 2022

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in nvflare

Impact

NVIDIA FLARE contains a vulnerability in Admin Interface, where an un-authorized attacker can cause Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, which may lead to cause system unavailable

All versions before 2.0.16 are affected.

Patches

The patch will be included in nvflare==2.0.16.

Workarounds

The changes in commits https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/commit/93588b3a0dff9bd4568983071b74d8b420de3a6e and https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/commit/93588b3a0dff9bd4568983071b74d8b420de3a6e can be applied to any version of the NVIDIA FLARE without any adverse effect.

Additional information

Issue Found on: 2022.3.3
Issue Found by: Oliver Sellwood (@Nintorac)

Technologies

Nvidia Federated Learning Application Runtime EnvironmentNvflare Nvflare

Weaknesses

CWE-770

CVSS scores

v3.17.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

ReconImpact

Initial Access Impact

T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application T1498.001Direct Network Flood T1498.002Reflection Amplification T1499Endpoint Denial of Service T1499.001OS Exhaustion Flood T1499.002Service Exhaustion Flood T1499.003Application Exhaustion Flood

References

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