CVE-2024-57081

HighDDoS

Published: 05 February 2025

Published

05 February 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0004 11.9th percentile

Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-57081 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 11.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-57081 is a prototype pollution vulnerability in the lib.fromQuery function of the underscore-contrib library version 0.3.0. This issue allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by supplying a crafted payload. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) and is classified under CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption). It was published on 2025-02-05.

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high-impact disruption of availability, such as resource exhaustion, without affecting confidentiality or integrity.

Mitigation details and additional information are available in the referenced advisory at https://gist.github.com/tariqhawis/4b2c7273054f0d70ef162aa5b6daec01.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-53524

Vulnerability details

A prototype pollution in the lib.fromQuery function of underscore-contrib v0.3.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload.

CWE(s): CWE-400

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.

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Why these techniques?

Prototype pollution in fromQuery enables remote crafted input leading to resource exhaustion/DoS, directly matching application exploitation for endpoint denial of service.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1