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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2024-3508 json

Bzip2: compressed content bomb leads to denial of service of bombastic api

published 2024-04-25 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-32094

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Bombastic, which allows authenticated users to upload compressed (bzip2 or zstd) SBOMs. The API endpoint verifies the presence of some fields and values in the JSON. To perform this verification, the uploaded file must first be decompressed.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-3508 updated cvss 4.3

bzip2: Compressed Content Bomb Leads to Denial of Service of Bombastic API

  • Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer SBOM-Management-(Bombastic)
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.