CVE-2024-20716
PHP vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.6-p3, 2.4.5-p5, 2.4.4-p6 and earlier are affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-20716. The vulnerability was disclosed in February 2024 and affects Adobe Commerce e-commerce platform (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption issue (CWE-400) that could lead to an application denial-of-service. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.9 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (NVD).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to exhaust system resources, causing the application to slow down or crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update to the latest versions of Adobe Commerce (Adobe Advisory).

Additional resources


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