What is CVE-2022-24294?

CVE-2022-24294 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Mxnet, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-07-24.

How severe is CVE-2022-24294?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Apache Mxnet

CVE-2022-24294

A regular expression used in Apache MXNet (incubating) is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service by excessive resource consumption. The bug could be exploited when loading a model in Apache MXNet that has a specially crafted operator name that would cause the regular expression evaluation to use excessive resources to attempt a match. This issue affects Apache MXNet versions prior to 1.9.1.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2022-07-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (78.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Apache Mxnet
Apache Software Foundation Mxnet — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

lists.apache.org/thread/b1fbfmvzlr2bbp95lqoh3mtovclfcl3o (Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/24/2 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-24294?: CVE-2022-24294 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Mxnet, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-07-24.
How severe is CVE-2022-24294?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.