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TI-2024-21091 Aliases CVE-2024-31992

Mealie contains a DoS vulnerability in recipe importer

Priority LOW 30CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the safe_scrape_html function utilizes a user-controlled URL to issue a request to a remote server, however these requests are not rate-limited. While there are efforts to prevent DDoS by implementing a timeout on requests, it is possible for an attacker to issue a large number of requests to the server which will be handled in batches based on the configuration of the Mealie server. The chunking of responses is helpful for mitigating memory exhaustion on the Mealie server, however a single request to an arbitrarily large external file (e.g. a Debian ISO) is often sufficient to completely saturate a CPU core assigned to the Mealie container. Without rate limiting in place, it is possible to not only sustain traffic against an external target indefinitely, but also to exhaust the CPU resources assigned to the Mealie container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00716 54th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed mealie (mealie-recipes): 1.4.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
mealie-recipesmealiebefore 1.4.01.4.0Patch availableCNA
  • mealie Vendormealie-recipes Affected before 1.4.0 Fixed in 1.4.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:mealie:mealie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.4.0Vulnerablemealie-recipes
  • cpe:2.3:a:mealie:mealie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.4.0 Vulnerable ·mealie-recipes

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA mealie (mealie-recipes) Fixed in 1.4.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-31992

References

Patch 1

Advisory 1

Other 2

  • TI-2025-35411 Mealie 3.0.1 and earlier is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the recipe… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0
  • TI-2024-36768 A Broken Object Level Authorization vulnerability in the component /api/users/{user-id}… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
  • TI-2024-21092 Mealie vulnerable to a GET-based SSRF in recipe image importer (GHSL-2023-227) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.2
  • TI-2025-43084 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the recipe asset upload and media… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
  • TI-2025-43083 A stored HTML injection vulnerability in the Recipe Notes rendering component in Mealie… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
  • TI-2024-36767 A Broken Object Level Authorization vulnerability in the component /api/users/{user-id}… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
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Sources

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