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🛡️ CVE-2024-12777 — aim

🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-1088 OSV
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Description

Aim vulnerable to Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout

A vulnerability in aimhubio/aim version 3.25.0 allows for a denial of service through the misuse of the sshfs-client. The tracking server, which is single-threaded, can be made unresponsive by requesting it to connect to an unresponsive socket via sshfs. The lack of an additional timeout setting in the sshfs-client causes the server to hang for a significant amount of time, preventing it from responding to other requests.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-12777 is classified as CWE-1088: Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout. The code has a synchronous call to a remote resource, but there is no timeout for the call, or the timeout is set to infinite.

Affected software

CVE-2024-12777 is recorded against 1 package.

  • aim

Timeline and source

Published on 20 March 2025 and last revised on 7 July 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
huntr.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

aim has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1088: Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-1088
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2025-03-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
aim — —

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