Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop when unmarshalling Compose file having recursive loop

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10846",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop when unmarshalling Compose file having recursive loop",
    "summary": "The compose-go library component in versions v2.10-v2.4.0 allows an authorized user who sends malicious YAML payloads to cause the compose-go to consume excessive amount of Memory and CPU cycles while parsing YAML, such as used by Docker Compose from versions v2.27.0 to v2.29.7 included",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-10846",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        "CVE-2024-10846",
        "GHSA-36gq-35j3-p9r9",
        "GO-2025-3412"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-go",
              "type": "GIT",
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          "database_specific": {
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.247560859Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/10xxx/CVE-2024-10846.json",
        "https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-go/security/advisories/GHSA-36gq-35j3-p9r9",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10846",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250425-0008/",
        "https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-go"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 494735,
  "published_at": "2025-01-23T15:22:56.17+00:00"
}