CVE-2022-21822

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.45%

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in nvflare

Published: 3/18/2022Modified: 3/13/2026

Description

### Impact NVIDIA FLARE contains a vulnerability in Admin Interface, where an un-authorized attacker can cause Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, which may lead to cause system unavailable All versions before 2.0.16 are affected. ### Patches The patch will be included in nvflare==2.0.16. ### Workarounds The changes in commits https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/commit/93588b3a0dff9bd4568983071b74d8b420de3a6e and https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/commit/93588b3a0dff9bd4568983071b74d8b420de3a6e can be applied to any version of the NVIDIA FLARE without any adverse effect. ### Additional information Issue Found on: 2022.3.3 Issue Found by: Oliver Sellwood (@Nintorac)

Affected packages (1)

PyPI/nvflarefrom 0, < 2.0.16

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (3)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21822
PATCHhttps://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare
WEBhttps://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/security/advisories/GHSA-jx8f-cpx7-fv47