Denial of service of Minder Server with attacker-controlled REST endpoint
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- 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 and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
Minder is a software supply chain security platform. Prior to version 0.0.49, the Minder REST ingester is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via an attacker-controlled REST endpoint that can crash the Minder server. The REST ingester allows users to interact with REST endpoints to fetch data for rule evaluation. When fetching data with the REST ingester, Minder sends a request to an endpoint and will use the data from the body of the response as the data to evaluate against a certain rule. If the response is sufficiently large, it can drain memory on the machine and crash the Minder server. The attacker can control the remote REST endpoints that Minder sends requests to, and they can configure the remote REST endpoints to return responses with large bodies. They would then instruct Minder to send a request to their configured endpoint that would return the large response which would crash the Minder server. Version 0.0.49 fixes this issue.
Why it matters now
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stacklok | minder | before 0.0.49 | 0.0.49 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/stacklok/minder (Go) | before 0.0.49 | 0.0.49 | Patch available | GHSA-fjw8-3gp8-4cvx |
- minder Vendorstacklok Affected before 0.0.49 Fixed in 0.0.49 Patch available CNA
- github.com/stacklok/minder (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.0.49 Fixed in 0.0.49 Patch available GHSA-fjw8-3gp8-4cvx
Remediation
- Fix · CNA minder (stacklok) Fixed in 0.0.49
- Fix · GHSA-fjw8-3gp8-4cvx github.com/stacklok/minder (Go) Fixed in 0.0.49 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-35185
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fjw8-3gp8-4cvx
References
More stacklok vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-41912 ToolHive: containerized MCP servers can reach host services via host.docker.internal, enabling lateral movement CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-22541 Minder's Github Webhook Handler vulnerable to denial of service from un-validated requests CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-41911 ToolHive: SSRF in remote MCP server authentication discovery (host-side, bypasses container isolation) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7
- TI-2024-25220 Denial of service from maliciously configured Git repository in Minder CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.7
- TI-2024-23307 Denial of service of Minder Server from maliciously crafted GitHub attestations CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-23266 Stacklok Minder vulnerable to denial of service from maliciously crafted templates CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2024-35185 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-35185 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fjw8-3gp8-4cvx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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