What is CVE-2024-5552?

CVE-2024-5552 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kubeflow, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-06-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-5552?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Kubeflow

CVE-2024-5552

kubeflow/kubeflow is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack due to inefficient regular expression complexity in its email validation mechanism. An attacker can remotely exploit this vulnerability without authentication by providing specially crafted input that causes the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU resources. This vulnerability affects the latest version of kubeflow/kubeflow, specifically within the centraldashboard-angular backend component. The impact of exploiting this vulnerability includes resource exhaustion, and service disruption.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.006 (47.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Kubeflow
Kubeflow Kubeflow/kubeflow — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

security@huntr.dev (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5552?: CVE-2024-5552 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kubeflow, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-06-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-5552?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.