Quick answers
- Is CVE-2024-12778 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2024-12778 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2024-12778?
- Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3, published 7 July 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- aim (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,last_affected=3.25.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2024-12778?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2024-12778 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network.
- Am I affected by CVE-2024-12778?
- Check whether you run aim (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an uncontrolled resource consumption issue (CWE-400, CWE-770) in Aim's web API metrics endpoint. The root cause is the lack of rate limiting or pagination limits on metric retrieval requests combined with the server's single-threaded architecture. An unauthenticated network attacker can send a request to retrieve a large number of metrics in a single API call, causing excessive memory allocation and CPU usage that blocks the server from processing other requests. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 3.25.0, with no patch information currently available in the advisory.
Affected products
- aimhubio Aim up to 3.25.0
Identifiers
- CVE-2024-12778
- GHSA-35p3-6j45-prwm
- PYSEC-2026-1080
Timeline
- 2025-03-20: disclosed: Advisory published on OSV
- 2025-03-20: advisory: CVE-2024-12778 and GHSA-35p3-6j45-prwm assigned