CVE-2024-12777 Denial of Service in aimhubio/aim

What is CVE-2024-12777?

CVE-2024-12777 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in aimhubio/aim, published on 20 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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 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.

Weakness: CWE-1088

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12777?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including aim. It affects 1 product.

Products include Aimstack Aim.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12777?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12777 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-12777 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-12777 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in aimhubio/aim

• CVE-2024-6396 Arbitrary File Overwrite and Data Exfiltration in aimhubio/aim Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-2195 Remote Code Execution in aimhubio/aim Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-6829 Arbitrary File Overwrite through tarfile-extraction in aimhubio/aim Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-8769 Arbitrary File Deletion via Relative Path Traversal in aimhubio/aim Critical 9.1
• CVE-2025-51464 Aim vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-v5pj-jrpv-h6g2, PYSEC-2026-1095.