What is CVE-2024-45700?

CVE-2024-45700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zabbix, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-45700?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-45700 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Zabbix

CVE-2024-45700

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (27.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Zabbix — versions 6.0.0, 7.0.0, 7.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

w4zu/Debian_

References

security@zabbix.com (Vendor Advisory)
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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-45700?: CVE-2024-45700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zabbix, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-45700?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-45700 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.