Impact
When submitting a POST request to the /dataset/new endpoint (including either the auth cookie or the Authorization header) with a specially-crafted field, an attacker can create an out-of-memory error in the hosting server.
To trigger this error the user needs to have permissions to create or edit datasets.
Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in CKAN 2.10.3 and 2.9.10
Impact
When submitting a POST request to the
/dataset/newendpoint (including either the auth cookie or theAuthorizationheader) with a specially-crafted field, an attacker can create an out-of-memory error in the hosting server.To trigger this error the user needs to have permissions to create or edit datasets.
Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in CKAN 2.10.3 and 2.9.10