CVE-2024-10846Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop when unmarshalling Compose file having recursive loop
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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
Timeline
ID reserved
By Docker
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| DockerCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 2.4.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/compose-spec/compose-go/v2GHSA-36gq-35j3-p9r9 (opens in a new tab)
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-0125 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-36gq-35j3-p9r9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-10846)Record last updated .