CVE-2024-31992 json
Mealie contains a DoS vulnerability in recipe importer
published 2024-04-19 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-29839
- cvss
- 6.5
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.7%
- EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the safe_scrape_html function utilizes a user-controlled URL to issue a request to a remote server, however these requests are not rate-limited. While there are efforts to prevent DDoS by implementing a timeout on requests, it is possible for an attacker to issue a large number of requests to the server which will be handled in batches based on the configuration of the Mealie server. The chunking of responses is helpful for mitigating memory exhaustion on the Mealie server, however a single request to an arbitrarily large external file (e.g. a Debian ISO) is often sufficient to completely saturate a CPU core assigned to the Mealie container. Without rate limiting in place, it is possible to not only sustain traffic against an external target indefinitely, but also to exhaust the CPU resources assigned to the Mealie container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.
Patch / fix
- mealie mealie 1.4.0
- mealie_project mealie 1.4.0
- github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie@2a3463b commit
- github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie#3368 pull request
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 2 y ago
Exploit prediction
0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 3.1 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected products
- mealie-recipes mealie
- mealie mealie
Classification
References
-
github.com
/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368
issue-tracking
-
github.com
/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f
patch
-
securitylab.github.com
/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/
third-party-advisory
-
github.com
/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py#L27-L70
product
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2024-31992
- NVD CVE-2024-31992
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