Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting github.com/hashicorp/nomad package, versions <1.2.16 >=1.3.0 <1.3.9 >=1.4.0 <1.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMHASHICORPNOMAD-3323841
  • published 17 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 17 Feb 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad to version 1.2.16, 1.3.9, 1.4.4 or higher.

Overview

github.com/hashicorp/nomad is a workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) due to missing decompression limits, such that using a maliciously compressed artifact stanza source can cause excessive disk usage.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

6.5 medium