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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-31994 · published 19 April 2024

CVE-2024-31994: Mealie uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability

Mealie · Mealie

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, an attacker can point the image request to an arbitrarily large file. Mealie will attempt to retrieve this file in whole. If it can be retrieved, it may be stored on the file system in whole (leading to possible disk consumption), however the more likely scenario given resource limitations is that the container will OOM during file retrieval if the target file size is greater than the allocated memory of the container. At best this can be used to force the container to infinitely restart due to OOM (if so configured in `docker-compose.yml), or at worst this can be used to force the Mealie container to crash and remain offline. In the event that the file can be retrieved, the lack of rate limiting on this endpoint also permits an attacker to generate ongoing requests to any target of their choice, potentially contributing to an external-facing DoS attack. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.28% · top 81.8% CWE-400 · Uncontrolled resource consumptionCWE-770 · Allocation without limits
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.28%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
8References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, an attacker can point the image request to an arbitrarily large file. Mealie will attempt to retrieve this file in whole. If it can be retrieved, it may be stored on the file system in whole (leading to possible disk consumption), however the more likely scenario given resource limitations is that the container will OOM during file retrieval if the target file size is greater than the allocated memory of the container. At best this can be used to force the container to infinitely restart due to OOM (if so configured in `docker-compose.yml), or at worst this can be used to force the Mealie container to crash and remain offline. In the event that the file can be retrieved, the lack of rate limiting on this endpoint also permits an attacker to generate ongoing requests to any target of their choice, potentially contributing to an external-facing DoS attack. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

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

Affected products

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

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/ee121a12f8db33ecb4db5f8582f7ea9788d019e4/mealie/services/recipe/recipe_dat Product
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f Patch
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368 Issue TrackingPatch
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/ ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/ee121a12f8db33ecb4db5f8582f7ea9788d019e4/mealie/services/recipe/recipe_dat Product
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f Patch
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368 Issue TrackingPatch
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/ ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-31994), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.