VulnerabilityPublished 8 May 2024Updated 20 Nov 2025

CVE-2024-4437: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source CVE Database V5

Mentioned vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-44716

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.5High

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

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 55% 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 8 May 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 26 Oct 2026.

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 or the CVSS exploit maturity 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-2024-4437, organizations should: 1) Verify the version of the etcd package used within their Red Hat OpenStack deployments and confirm whether it uses the vulnerable http2 package from golang.org. 2) Rebuild or update the etcd package to use the patched http2 implementation provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ensuring the incomplete fix is fully applied at compile time. 3) Monitor Red Hat advisories for official patches or updated packages addressing this vulnerability and apply them promptly. 4) Implement network-level protections such as rate limiting and filtering to reduce the risk of resource exhaustion attacks targeting etcd endpoints. 5) Employ robust monitoring and alerting on etcd resource usage to detect anomalous activity indicative of exploitation attempts. 6) Consider isolating etcd traffic within secure network segments to limit exposure to untrusted networks. These steps go beyond generic advice by focusing on the specific dependency and build process issue causing the vulnerability, emphasizing the need for recompilation or package updates rather than simple configuration changes.

Description

The etcd package distributed with the Red Hat OpenStack platform has an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-44716. This issue occurs because the etcd package in the Red Hat OpenStack platform is using http://golang.org/x/net/http2 instead of the one provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions, meaning it should be updated at compile time instead.

Impact

The primary impact of CVE-2024-4437 is denial of service through uncontrolled resource consumption in the etcd service within Red Hat OpenStack environments. This can lead to service outages or degraded performance of cloud infrastructure components relying on etcd for configuration and state management. As etcd is critical for OpenStack's operation, exploitation could disrupt cloud services, affecting availability of virtual machines, networking, and storage resources. The vulnerability requires no authentication or user interaction, increasing the risk of remote exploitation by attackers. Organizations with large-scale OpenStack deployments, especially those providing public or private cloud services, may experience significant operational disruptions. The impact is limited to availability, with no direct compromise of data confidentiality or integrity reported. However, denial of service in cloud platforms can have cascading effects on dependent applications and services, potentially causing widespread business interruptions and financial losses.

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