CVE-2024-8020
Published: 20 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-8020 is a high-severity Uncaught Exception (CWE-248) vulnerability in Lightningai Pytorch Lightning. 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 44.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Deep Learning Frameworks; in the Supply Chain and Deployment risk domain.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-6922
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning version 2.3.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an unexpected POST request to the `/api/v1/state` endpoint of `LightningApp`. This issue occurs due to improper handling of unexpected state values, which results…
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in the server shutting down.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Deep Learning Frameworks
- Risk Domain
- Supply Chain and Deployment
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- Matched keywords: ai, pytorch
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability enables denial of service by crashing the LightningApp server through an unexpected POST request to /api/v1/state, directly facilitating T1499.004 (Endpoint Denial of Service: Application or System Exploitation).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.