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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-31992 · published 19 April 2024

CVE-2024-31992: Mealie uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability

Mealie · Mealie

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the safe_scrape_html function utilizes a user-controlled URL to issue a request to a remote server, however these requests are not rate-limited. While there are efforts to prevent DDoS by implementing a timeout on requests, it is possible for an attacker to issue a large number of requests to the server which will be handled in batches based on the configuration of the Mealie server. The chunking of responses is helpful for mitigating memory exhaustion on the Mealie server, however a single request to an arbitrarily large external file (e.g. a Debian ISO) is often sufficient to completely saturate a CPU core assigned to the Mealie container. Without rate limiting in place, it is possible to not only sustain traffic against an external target indefinitely, but also to exhaust the CPU resources assigned to the Mealie container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.72% · top 48.1% CWE-400 · Uncontrolled resource consumptionCWE-770 · Allocation without limits
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.72%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
8References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the safe_scrape_html function utilizes a user-controlled URL to issue a request to a remote server, however these requests are not rate-limited. While there are efforts to prevent DDoS by implementing a timeout on requests, it is possible for an attacker to issue a large number of requests to the server which will be handled in batches based on the configuration of the Mealie server. The chunking of responses is helpful for mitigating memory exhaustion on the Mealie server, however a single request to an arbitrarily large external file (e.g. a Debian ISO) is often sufficient to completely saturate a CPU core assigned to the Mealie container. Without rate limiting in place, it is possible to not only sustain traffic against an external target indefinitely, but also to exhaust the CPU resources assigned to the Mealie container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py#L27-L70 Product
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f Patch
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368 Issue Tracking
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/ Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py#L27-L70 Product
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f Patch
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368 Issue Tracking
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/ Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-31992), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.