Security Resilience

CVE-2024-12777

Aimstack Aim 3.25.0

Public PoC
Published
20 March 2025
Modified
18 July 2025
CVSS Score v3 5.9
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0048 40th percentile
Risk Priority 46 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-12777 is a medium-severity Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout (CWE-1088) vulnerability in Aimstack Aim. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Junk Data (T1001.001); ranked at the 40th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-10 (Network Disconnect) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A vulnerability in aimhubio/aim version 3.25.0 allows for a denial of service through the misuse of the sshfs-client. The tracking server, which is single-threaded, can be made unresponsive by requesting it to connect to an unresponsive socket via sshfs. The…

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lack of an additional timeout setting in the sshfs-client causes the server to hang for a significant amount of time, preventing it from responding to other requests.

CWE(s)
CWE-1088

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1001.001 Junk Data Command And Control
Adversaries may add junk data to protocols used for command and control to make detection more difficult.
attack.mitre.org →
T1001.003 Protocol or Service Impersonation Command And Control
Adversaries may impersonate legitimate protocols or web service traffic to disguise command and control activity and thwart analysis efforts.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.002 Security Account Manager Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to extract credential material from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database either through in-memory techniques or through the Windows Registry where the SAM database is stored.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different credential materials, such as credentials for service accounts.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.005 Cached Domain Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access cached domain credentials used to allow authentication to occur in the event a domain controller is unavailable.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.008 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to dump the contents of <code>/etc/passwd</code> and <code>/etc/shadow</code> to enable offline password cracking.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

aimstack
aim
3.25.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-10 Network Disconnect partial match

SC-10 requires terminating network connections after a defined period, directly enforcing timeouts on remote synchronous calls.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.IR-03 partial match
blocks

Resilience mechanisms can include timeouts to maintain availability under adverse remote conditions.

PR.PS-06 partial match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices directly require timeout handling on remote calls to avoid hangs.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.5.6 Contact with special interest groups partial match
removes
A.8.14 Redundancy of information processing facilities partial match
degrades

Redundancy and failover mechanisms can mitigate the impact of a hung synchronous call but do not enforce timeouts.

A.8.20 Networks security partial match
degrades

Network security controls can include connection-timeout policies, yet the weakness is a coding-level omission.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices require timeout handling for external calls, directly addressing the missing timeout.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
blocks

Application security requirements typically mandate timeout settings for remote resource access.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
blocks

A.8.27 establishes and applies secure-by-design principles (defense-in-depth, least privilege, fail securely, distrust external input, zero-trust verification) during architecture and engineering; it does not stop a synchronous remote call without timeout from being written or from blocking when it occurs.

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