Denial of service in BinData

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU54475

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-32823

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

BinData: 1.5.0 - 2.4.9

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:dion_mendel:bindata:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dion_mendel:bindata:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dion_mendel:bindata:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

http://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/06/01/security-release-gitlab-13-12-2-released/#update-bindata-dependency
http://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/issues/476
http://github.com/dmendel/bindata/commit/d99f050b88337559be2cb35906c1f8da49531323
http://github.com/dmendel/bindata/blob/v2.4.10/ChangeLog.rdoc#version-2410-2021-05-18-
http://rubygems.org/gems/bindata

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.