What is CVE-2024-6598?

CVE-2024-6598 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Knime Business Hub, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-07-09.

How severe is CVE-2024-6598?

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

Is CVE-2024-6598 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Knime Business Hub

CVE-2024-6598

A denial-of-service attack is possible through the execution functionality of KNIME Business Hub 1.10.0 and 1.10.1. It allows an authenticated attacker with job execution privileges to execute a job that causes internal messages to pile up until there are no more resources available for processing new messages. This leads to an outage of most functionality of KNIME Business Hub. Recovery from the situation is only possible by manual administrator interaction. Please contact our support for instructions in case you have run into this situation. Updating to KNIME Business Hub 1.10.2 or later solves the problem.

EPSS: 0.005 (43.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Knime Business_hub
Knime Business Hub — versions 1.10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

security@knime.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6598?: CVE-2024-6598 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Knime Business Hub, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2024-6598?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6598 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.