What is CVE-2024-40575?

CVE-2024-40575 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Opengauss, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-07-24.

How severe is CVE-2024-40575?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Huawei Opengauss

CVE-2024-40575

An issue in Huawei Technologies opengauss (openGauss 5.0.0 build) v.7.3.0 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the modification of table attributes

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2024-07-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (1.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 1st percentile — 1.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Huawei Opengauss — versions 7.3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

opengauss.org (Product)
gist.github.com/RuiHuaLiu2023/92059b0fa6c625e3d39001c5a9b2dc71 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-40575?: CVE-2024-40575 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Opengauss, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-07-24.
How severe is CVE-2024-40575?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.