github - ghsa-98fp-7v67-4v3q

ghsa-98fp-7v67-4v3q

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-20 12:32

Modified

2025-03-21 21:56

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

PyTorch Lightning denial of service vulnerability

Details

A vulnerability in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning version 2.3.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an unexpected POST request to the /api/v1/state endpoint of LightningApp. This issue occurs due to improper handling of unexpected state values, which results in the server shutting down.

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  "modified": "2025-03-21T21:56:43Z",
  "published": "2025-03-20T12:32:47Z",
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CVE-2024-8020 (GCVE-0-2024-8020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-03-20 10:09

Modified

2025-10-15 12:49

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception

Summary

A vulnerability in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning version 2.3.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an unexpected POST request to the `/api/v1/state` endpoint of `LightningApp`. This issue occurs due to improper handling of unexpected state values, which results in the server shutting down.

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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	lightning-ai	lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning	Version: unspecified <

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