CVE-2024-8020
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.22%PyTorch Lightning denial of service vulnerability
Published: 3/20/2025Modified: 2/4/2026
Description
A vulnerability in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning version 2.3.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an unexpected POST request to the `/api/v1/state` endpoint of `LightningApp`. This issue occurs due to improper handling of unexpected state values, which results in the server shutting down.
Affected packages (1)
- PyPI/pytorch-lightningfrom 0, <= 2.3.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |