CVE-2024-34045VulnerabilityPublished 29 Apr 2024Updated 24 Aug 2026

CVE-2024-34045: n/a

Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 07:57 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.5High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 43% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 29 Apr 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2024-34045, organizations should implement the following specific measures: 1) Immediately monitor O-RAN E2T I-Release instances for abnormal crashes or SCTP thread failures, focusing on Prometheus metric increments related to E2 setup procedures. 2) Employ network-level protections such as rate limiting and traffic filtering to restrict potentially malicious or malformed SCTP messages that could trigger the vulnerability. 3) Isolate critical O-RAN components within segmented network zones to limit exposure to untrusted networks. 4) Engage with O-RAN software vendors and community to obtain patches or updates as soon as they become available, and prioritize timely deployment. 5) Consider implementing application-layer watchdogs or process supervisors that can automatically restart crashed components to minimize downtime. 6) Conduct thorough testing of O-RAN E2T deployments in controlled environments to identify and address any stability issues related to metric handling. 7) Maintain up-to-date incident response plans tailored to telecom infrastructure to quickly respond to potential denial-of-service incidents. These targeted actions go beyond generic advice by focusing on the specific metric increment function and SCTP thread behavior implicated in this vulnerability.

Description

The O-RAN E2T I-Release Prometheus metric Increment function can crash in sctpThread.cpp for message.peerInfo->counters[IN_INITI][MSG_COUNTER][ProcedureCode_id_E2setup]->Increment().

Impact

The primary impact of CVE-2024-34045 is a denial-of-service condition that can disrupt the availability of O-RAN E2T components in 5G network environments. Since the vulnerability causes a crash in the SCTP thread responsible for handling metric increments, it can lead to service interruptions or outages in the radio access network communication layer. This disruption can affect network operators' ability to maintain stable and reliable 5G connectivity, potentially degrading user experience and impacting critical services relying on 5G infrastructure. Although confidentiality and integrity are not compromised, the availability impact is significant, especially for telecom operators and service providers deploying O-RAN architectures. The ease of exploitation—requiring no authentication or user interaction—means attackers can remotely trigger the crash, increasing the risk of widespread service disruptions. Organizations relying on O-RAN E2T I-Release for their 5G deployments may face operational challenges and reputational damage if the vulnerability is exploited.

CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: High
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
MITRE discourages mapping vulnerabilities to this broad entry; the root cause is usually a more specific weakness.
Architecture and Design
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place.
Architecture and Design
Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or; uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
File Upload (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.1.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XML Ping of the Death (opens in a new tab)
Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (opens in a new tab)
Sustained Client Engagement (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/RIC-1047 (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 26 Feb 2026, 04:38 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-400

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