CVE-2024-34079: octo-sts allows unauthenticated attackers to cause unbounded CPU and memory usage

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

octo-sts is a GitHub App that acts like a Security Token Service (STS) for the Github API. This vulnerability can spike the resource utilization of the STS service, and combined with a significant traffic volume could potentially lead to a denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.0

Affected products

octo-sts app: before 0.1.0

References

https://github.com/octo-sts/app/commit/74ba874c017cf973edd6711144cf4399a9fcff57
https://github.com/octo-sts/app/security/advisories/GHSA-75r6-6jg8-pfcq
https://github.com/octo-sts/app/commit/74ba874c017cf973edd6711144cf4399a9fcff57
https://github.com/octo-sts/app/security/advisories/GHSA-75r6-6jg8-pfcq

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