What is CVE-2022-4008?

CVE-2022-4008 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Octopus Server, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-05-10.

How severe is CVE-2022-4008?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Octopus Server

CVE-2022-4008

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to upload a zipbomb file as a task which results in Denial of Service

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2023-05-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (7.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 7th percentile — 7.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Octopus Server
Octopus Deploy Tentacle — versions 0.9, unspecified, 2022.4.791

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

advisories.octopus.com/post/2023/sa2023-08/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-4008?: CVE-2022-4008 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Octopus Server, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-05-10.
How severe is CVE-2022-4008?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.