CVE-2024-10846 | Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop when unmarshalling Compose file having recursive loop

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

Published: 2025-01-23 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-10846 is rated Low Risk (25.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-10846

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-08 0.07% 0.02% -0.05%
2 2026-03-01 0.03% 0.07% +0.04%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.03% —

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-10846

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.9 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.5 4.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-10846

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-10846

GHSA-36gq-35j3-p9r9 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop when unmarshalling Compose file having recursive loop

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-10846

vendor priority summary link
suse medium CVE-2024-10846 severity moderate: SUSE including 18 source package names (docker, docker-bash-completion, …), 164 product×package rows across 55 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (55 product lines)): Known Not Affected 113, Fixed 51. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10846/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-10846

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2024-10846

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