Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in nvflare

High7.5CVE-2022-21822 · Published Mar 17, 2022 · updated Mar 18, 2022

### 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)