# CVE-2024-50609: An issue was discovered in Fluent Bit 3.1.9.

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-18 · Updated: 2025-02-19

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Fluent Bit 3.1.9. When the OpenTelemetry input plugin is running and listening on an IP address and port, one can send a packet with Content-Length: 0 and it crashes the server. Improper handling of the case when Content-Length is 0 allows a user (with access to the endpoint) to perform a remote Denial of service attack. The crash happens because of a NULL pointer dereference when 0 (from the Content-Length) is passed to the function cfl_sds_len, which in turn tries to cast a NULL pointer into struct cfl_sds. This is related to process_payload_traces_proto_ng() at opentelemetry_prot.c.

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## References

- https://fluentbit.io/announcements/
- https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/releases
- https://www.ebryx.com/blogs/exploring-cve-2024-50608-and-cve-2024-50609

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