CVE-2024-6227 Infinite Loop in aimhubio/aim

What is CVE-2024-6227?

CVE-2024-6227 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in aimhubio/aim, published on 8 Jul 2024. 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 3.19.3 allows an attacker to cause an infinite loop by configuring the remote tracking server to point at itself. This results in the server endlessly connecting to itself, rendering it unable to respond to other connections.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6227?

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

Products include Aimstack Aim.

How do I fix CVE-2024-6227?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6227 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-2024-6227 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-6227 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
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Also known as GHSA-36h2-g4c8-9xcm, PYSEC-2026-1081.