What is CVE-2024-4227?

CVE-2024-4227 is a high-severity vulnerability in Genivia Gsoap, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-01-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-4227?

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

Vulnerability in Genivia Gsoap

CVE-2024-4227

In Genivia gSOAP with a specific configuration an unauthenticated remote attacker can generate a high CPU load when forcing to parse an XML having duplicate ID attributes which can lead to a DoS.

Published 2025-01-15 · 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: 0.007 (52.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Genivia Gsoap — versions 2.8.24

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-834 — Excessive Iteration

References

sourceforge.net/p/gsoap2/code/HEAD/tree/changelog.md (release-notes)
www.genivia.com/advisory.html (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-4227?: CVE-2024-4227 is a high-severity vulnerability in Genivia Gsoap, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-01-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-4227?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.