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HIGH7.5

PYSEC-2026-695

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in nvflare

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-695 — nvflare: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'nvflare>=2.0.16'

Details

### 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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Affected packages

PyPI/nvflare
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.0.16
Fixpip install --upgrade 'nvflare>=2.0.16'

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