CVE-2024-10846: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop when unmarshalling Compose file having recursive loop
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-10846 is a medium (CVSS 5.9) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in compose-spec compose-go. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.9, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2Timeline
- 23-01-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 25-04-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The compose-go library component in versions v2.10-v2.4.0 allows an authorized user who sends malicious YAML payloads to cause the compose-go to consume excessive amount of Memory and CPU cycles while parsing YAML, such as used by Docker Compose from versions v2.27.0 to v2.29.7 included
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated5.9MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST5.9MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.23%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
14%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.23% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Compose-spec1 product
- compose-go≤ 2.4.0
Github.com/compose-spec/compose-go1 product
- v2≥ 2.1.0, < 2.4.1
2 vendors · 2 products
