CVE-2022-26477CWE-400

Denial of service in readExternal method

published June 27, 2022

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
82.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Security Team noticed that the termination condition of the for loop in the readExternal method is a controllable variable, which, if tampered with, may lead to CPU exhaustion. As a fix, we added an upper bound and termination condition in the read and write logic. We classify it as a "low-priority but useful improvement". SystemDS is a distributed system and needs to serialize/deserialize data but in many code paths (e.g., on Spark broadcast/shuffle or writing to sequence files) the byte stream is anyway protected by additional CRC fingerprints. In this particular case though, the number of decoders is upper-bounded by twice the number of columns, which means an attacker would need to modify two entries in the byte stream in a consistent manner. By adding these checks robustness was strictly improved with almost zero overhead. These code changes are available in versions higher than 2.2.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02199 · 82.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2022-06-27T17:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 JUN 17:15Z
    Denial of service in readExternal method
    cvelistv5