TI-2024-07442 Aliases CVE-2024-8028 GHSA-4vm5-r6m3-2448

Denial of Service in danswer-ai/danswer

HIGH 72CWE-770Published 2025-03-20 · Updated 2025-10-15

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

A vulnerability in danswer-ai/danswer v0.3.94 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by uploading a file with a malformed multipart boundary. By appending a large number of characters to the end of the multipart boundary, the server continuously processes each character, rendering the application inaccessible. This issue can be exploited by sending a single crafted request, affecting all users on the server.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00529 44th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
danswer-ai	danswer-ai/danswer	up to latest	—	No fix listed	CNA

danswer-ai/danswer Vendordanswer-ai Affected up to latest Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-8028
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4vm5-r6m3-2448

References

Other 1

https://huntr.com/bounties/55530ecb-0ac2-4dc1-9527-bf24de594a57

TI-2024-21753 Unauthorized access to GET/SET of Slack Bot Tokens in Danswer CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-07378 Arbitrary File Overwrite in danswer-ai/danswer CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.1
TI-2025-00141 Denial of Service in danswer-ai/danswer CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2024-07212 ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) in danswer-ai/danswer CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2024-07477 CSRF in danswer-ai/danswer CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.1
TI-2024-07246 CORS Misconfiguration in danswer-ai/danswer CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.4

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Sources

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