CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2022-1698 — Allowing long password leads to denial of service in GitHub repository causefx/organizr prior to 2.1.2000
Critical
CVSS 9.9
Allowing long password leads to denial of service in GitHub repository causefx/organizr prior to 2.1.2000. This vulnerability can be abused by doing a DDoS attack for which genuine users will not able to access resources/applications.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.9 (3.0)
- Published
- 2022-05-12
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-191
Affected products
- organizr / organizr
Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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