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Advisory record · GHSA-98fp-7v67-4v3q

PyTorch Lightning denial of service vulnerability

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0064 · 51st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 20 Mar 2025, 12:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
pytorch-lightningPyPI<=2.3.2No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-98fp-7v67-4v3q · CVE-2024-8020 · PYSEC-2026-1857 · PYSEC-2026-3971
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-248
Tags
Published
20 Mar 2025
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

PyTorch Lightning versions up to and including 2.3.2 are affected. An attacker who can send network requests to a LightningApp server can send an unexpected POST request to its /api/v1/state endpoint, which makes the server shut down, causing a denial of service. No fixed version is listed.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (@huntr_ai)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0064, the 51st percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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