CVE-2024-34079

octo-sts allows unauthenticated attackers to cause unbounded CPU and memory usage

3.7 LowFix available

octo-sts is a GitHub App that acts like a Security Token Service (STS) for the Github API. This vulnerability can spike the resource utilization of the STS service, and combined with a significant traffic volume could potentially lead to a denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.0

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: High
Privileges needed: None
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: Low

Exploit likelihood

0.58%Up 0.5 points since May 11, 2024

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 3.7

octo-sts allows unauthenticated attackers to cause unbounded CPU and memory usage

Record: CVE-2024-34079
CVSS 3.1: 3.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness: CWE-400
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2024-1475 3.7

Record: EUVD-2024-1475
CVSS 3.1: 3.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated: 2026-11-03

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-75r6-6jg8-pfcq 3.7

octo-sts vulnerable to unauthenticated attacker causing unbounded CPU and memory usage

Impact

This vulnerability can spike the resource utilization of the STS service, and combined with a significant traffic volume could potentially lead to a denial of service.

Patches

This vulnerability existed in the repository at HEAD, we will cut a 0.1.0 release with the fix.

Workarounds

None

References

None

Record: GHSA-75r6-6jg8-pfcq
CVSS 3.1: 3.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness: CWE-400
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 3.7

Record: CVE-2024-34079
CVSS 3.1: 3.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness: CWE-400
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSV 3.7

octo-sts allows unauthenticated attackers to cause unbounded CPU and memory usage

Record: CVE-2024-34079
CVSS 3.1: 3.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness: CWE-400
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVGHSA-75r6-6jg8-pfcq 3.7

octo-sts vulnerable to unauthenticated attacker causing unbounded CPU and memory usage

Impact

This vulnerability can spike the resource utilization of the STS service, and combined with a significant traffic volume could potentially lead to a denial of service.

Patches

This vulnerability existed in the repository at HEAD, we will cut a 0.1.0 release with the fix.

Workarounds

None

References

None

Record: GHSA-75r6-6jg8-pfcq
CVSS 3.1: 3.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness: CWE-400
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVGO-2024-2833 No score

Denial of service in github.com/octo-sts/app

Excessively large requests can be processed, consuming a large amount of resources. This could potentially lead to a denial of service.

Record: GO-2024-2833
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
Package	Affected	Fixed
`github.com/octo-sts/app` Go	before 0.1.0	0.1.0

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 3, 2026	aliases, products, published	EUVD
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2024-34079 is a low vulnerability (CVSS 3.7) in Octo-sts App, published May 10, 2024. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.58%, the 47th percentile. Fixed in github.com/octo-sts/app 0.1.0.