CVE-2024-45700: DoS vulnerability due to uncontrolled resource exhaustion

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

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.

Affected products

Zabbix: from 6.0.0 before 6.0.39; from 7.0.0 before 7.0.10; from 7.2.0 before 7.2.4 — fixed in 6.0.39, 7.0.10, 7.2.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Zabbix 6.0.39, 7.0.10, 7.2.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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