Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting chainguard.dev/melange/pkg/renovate/cache package, versions <0.43.4
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- published6 Mar 2026
- disclosed2 Mar 2026
- creditOleh Konko
Introduced: 2 Mar 2026
CVE-2026-29049 Â (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade chainguard.dev/melange/pkg/renovate/cache to version 0.43.4 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the downloadFile() function via the update-cache command. An attacker can cause disk exhaustion by supplying a malicious URI in the configuration, leading to unbounded downloads and excessive disk writes.