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🛡️ CVE-2024-7768 — h2o

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

H2O Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via /3/ImportFiles Endpoint

A vulnerability in the /3/ImportFiles endpoint of h2oai/h2o-3 version 3.46.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The endpoint takes a single GET parameter, path, which can be recursively set to reference itself. This leads the server to repeatedly call its own endpoint, eventually filling up the request queue and leaving the server unable to handle other requests.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, 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:L/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: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • 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-2024-7768 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2024-7768 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • ai.h2o:h2o-core
  • h2o

Timeline and source

Published on 20 March 2025 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Other advisories for this package

ai.h2o:h2o-core 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-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
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
ai.h2o:h2o-core — —
h2o — —

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