CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-21909

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.06%

61th percentile - higher than 61% of all known CVEs

Summary

PeterO.Cbor versions 4.0.0 through 4.5.0 are vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack. An attacker can trigger this condition by providing crafted data to the DecodeFromBytes or other decoding mechanisms.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause service unavailability for applications using this library, leading to application downtime and potential financial losses.

Recommendation

Immediately update PeterO.Cbor to version 4.5.1 or later, which includes a fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

PeterO.Cbor versions 4.0.0 through 4.5.0 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker may trigger the denial of service condition by providing crafted data to the DecodeFromBytes or other decoding mechanisms in PeterO.Cbor. Depending on the usage of the library, an unauthenticated and remote attacker may be able to cause the denial of service condition.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS