Resource exhaustion in Zabbix - CVE-2024-45700
Published: April 3, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU106941
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45700
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests to the server, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Zabbix
Fedora
zabbix6.0
zabbix
zabbix7.0
Fedora
zabbix6.0
zabbix
zabbix7.0
How to mitigate CVE-2024-45700
Install updates from vendor's website.
Zabbix - addressed in versions 6.0.39 rc1, 7.0.10 rc1, 7.2.4 rc1
zabbix6.0 - update to 6.0.39-1.el8
zabbix - addressed in versions 6.0.39-1.el9, 6.0.39-1.fc40, 7.0.11-1.fc41, 7.2.5-1.fc42
zabbix7.0 - addressed in versions 7.0.11-1.el8, 7.0.11-1.el9
zabbix6.0 - update to 6.0.39-1.el8
zabbix - addressed in versions 6.0.39-1.el9, 6.0.39-1.fc40, 7.0.11-1.fc41, 7.2.5-1.fc42
zabbix7.0 - addressed in versions 7.0.11-1.el8, 7.0.11-1.el9