CVE-2024-45700 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-45700

DoS vulnerability due to uncontrolled resource exhaustion

Vulnerability Description

Zabbix server is vulnerable to a DoS vulnerability due to uncontrolled resource exhaustion. An attacker can send specially crafted requests to the server, which will cause the server to allocate an excessive amount of memory and perform CPU-intensive decompression operations, ultimately leading to a service crash.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Zabbix wants to thank kelsier for submitting this report on the HackerOne bug bounty platform

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Zabbix
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0.0, 7.0.0, 7.2.0, 7.4.0alpha1

Timeline

Official Publish: April 2nd, 2025
Last Modified: November 3rd, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1498 Network Denial of Service
Impact
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1046 Network Service Discovery
Discovery