CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2022-39281 — fat_free_crm is a an open source, Ruby on Rails customer relationship management platform (CRM)
fat_free_crm is a an open source, Ruby on Rails customer relationship management platform (CRM). In versions prior to 0.20.1 an authenticated user can perform a remote Denial of Service attack against Fat Free CRM via bucket access. The vulnerability has been patched in commit `c85a254` and will be available in release `0.20.1`. Users are advised to upgrade or to manually apply patch `c85a254`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2022-10-08
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- fatfreecrm / fatfreecrm
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
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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