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wger has an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption issue — GHSA-V25J-WQCW-FVHJ

GitHub · GitHub · GHSA-V25J-WQCW-FVHJ

ID
GHSA-V25J-WQCW-FVHJ
Date
Activity
Source
GitHub
Vendor
GitHub
Threat
medium
CVSS
6.5

Summary

### Summary Any authenticated user can create a routine spanning an arbitrarily long date range (e.g. 100 years) and then trigger the `date_sequence` computation via any of the routine detail endpoints. The server iterates once per day in an unbounded `while` loop with no maximum duration validation, causing a single HTTP request to consume multiple seconds of server CPU and return a response containing tens of…

Product

pip: wger

What to do

General, cautious steps (verify details in the official source):

  • Review exposure and plan remediation based on risk and environment.
  • Identify affected product versions in your inventory and verify whether you are impacted.
  • Apply vendor patches/updates or recommended mitigations as soon as available.
  • Read the official advisory for exact affected versions and remediation steps.

Official advisory

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