Red Hat Security Advisory: RHACS 4.5 enhancement and security update
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS) version 4. 5. 3 addresses a medium severity vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-39249, which involves inefficient regular expression complexity. This issue could potentially lead to performance degradation or denial of service conditions when processing certain inputs. The update also fixes a broken pipe error affecting the Central UI dashboard and adds a diagnostic option to aid troubleshooting. Users of earlier RHACS 4. 5 versions are advised to upgrade to 4. 5. 3 to apply these fixes.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2024-39249 is a vulnerability in RHACS 4.5 related to inefficient regular expression complexity, categorized under CWE-1333. This can cause excessive resource consumption when parsing specific inputs, potentially leading to denial of service. The Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2024:7443 confirms that this issue is fixed in RHACS 4.5.3. The update also resolves a broken pipe error in the Central UI dashboard and introduces a new diagnostic command option. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, but the severity is rated as moderate by Red Hat Product Security.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause inefficient processing due to complex regular expressions, potentially resulting in denial of service or degraded performance of the RHACS system. The broken pipe error fixed in the update previously caused incomplete data display in the Central UI dashboard, which could impact monitoring and management visibility. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released RHACS version 4.5.3 which includes the official fix for CVE-2024-39249. Users running earlier versions of RHACS 4.5 should upgrade to this patched release to remediate the vulnerability and benefit from additional bug fixes. No other mitigation actions are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHACS 4.5 enhancement and security update
Description
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS) version 4. 5. 3 addresses a medium severity vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-39249, which involves inefficient regular expression complexity. This issue could potentially lead to performance degradation or denial of service conditions when processing certain inputs. The update also fixes a broken pipe error affecting the Central UI dashboard and adds a diagnostic option to aid troubleshooting. Users of earlier RHACS 4. 5 versions are advised to upgrade to 4. 5. 3 to apply these fixes.
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2024-39249 is a vulnerability in RHACS 4.5 related to inefficient regular expression complexity, categorized under CWE-1333. This can cause excessive resource consumption when parsing specific inputs, potentially leading to denial of service. The Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2024:7443 confirms that this issue is fixed in RHACS 4.5.3. The update also resolves a broken pipe error in the Central UI dashboard and introduces a new diagnostic command option. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, but the severity is rated as moderate by Red Hat Product Security.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause inefficient processing due to complex regular expressions, potentially resulting in denial of service or degraded performance of the RHACS system. The broken pipe error fixed in the update previously caused incomplete data display in the Central UI dashboard, which could impact monitoring and management visibility. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released RHACS version 4.5.3 which includes the official fix for CVE-2024-39249. Users running earlier versions of RHACS 4.5 should upgrade to this patched release to remediate the vulnerability and benefit from additional bug fixes. No other mitigation actions are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:7443
- Cve Count
- 1
- Additional Cves
- []
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a1f4e9ee29bf47b50086eb1
Added to database: 6/2/2026, 9:43:58 PM
Last enriched: 6/2/2026, 10:24:35 PM
Last updated: 6/3/2026, 5:09:09 AM
Views: 3
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