Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in nvflare

HIGH 7.5CVE-2022-21822 · GHSA-jx8f-cpx7-fv47 · PYSEC-2026-695 · Published 17/03/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nvflare PyPI	`< 2.0.16`	`2.0.16`
federated learning application runtime environment nvidia	`< 2.0.16`	`2.0.16`

Description

Impact

NVIDIA FLARE contains a vulnerability in Admin Interface, where an un-authorized attacker can cause Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, which may lead to cause system unavailable

All versions before 2.0.16 are affected.

Patches

The patch will be included in nvflare==2.0.16.

Workarounds

The changes in commits https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/commit/93588b3a0dff9bd4568983071b74d8b420de3a6e and https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/commit/93588b3a0dff9bd4568983071b74d8b420de3a6e can be applied to any version of the NVIDIA FLARE without any adverse effect.

Additional information

Issue Found on: 2022.3.3 Issue Found by: Oliver Sellwood (@Nintorac)

NVD description

NVIDIA FLARE contains a vulnerability in the admin interface, where an un-authorized attacker can cause Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, which may lead to cause system unavailable.

References

NVIDIA/NVFlare security advisory · WEB
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21822 · ADVISORY
NVIDIA/NVFlare · PACKAGE
pypi.org/project/nvflare · PACKAGE
GitHub Advisory GHSA-jx8f-cpx7-fv47 · ADVISORY

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