CVE-2022-21822

Advisory

### 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)

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This vulnerability has no description

Resources

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jx8f-cpx7-fv47
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21822
• https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare/security/advisories/GHSA-jx8f-cpx7-fv47
• https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVFlare
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21822