OSC ondemand up to 3.1.13/4.0.5 resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in OSC ondemand up to 3.1.13/4.0.5. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-53636. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in OSC ondemand up to 3.1.13/4.0.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Open OnDemand is an open-source HPC portal. Users can flood logs by interacting with the shell app and generating many errors. Users who flood logs can create very large log files causing a Denial of Service (DoS) to the ondemand system. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.14 and 4.0.6.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-53636 since 07/07/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.1.14 or 4.0.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 40800d68cd019c5f1c48b2deafebba6dff4abee2 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-21186). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Vendor

• OSC

Name

• ondemand

Version

• 3.1.0
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.1.4
• 3.1.5
• 3.1.6
• 3.1.7
• 3.1.8
• 3.1.9
• 3.1.10
• 3.1.11
• 3.1.12
• 3.1.13
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/OSC/ondemand/

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