CVE-2024-3508

Bzip2: compressed content bomb leads to denial of service of bombastic api

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Apr 25, 2024
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Apr 9, 2024

Description

A flaw was found in Bombastic, which allows authenticated users to upload compressed (bzip2 or zstd) SBOMs. The API endpoint verifies the presence of some fields and values in the JSON. To perform this verification, the uploaded file must first be decompressed.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Affected Products

Product	Versions
bzip2	faa7a496c5d98e0f0859dd2c623eddf82289eaa8Not affected
Red Hat Trusted Profile AnalyzerRed Hat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3508vdb-entry
RHBZ#2274109issue-tracking

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