# CVE-2024-6598: Denial-of-service on KNIME Business Hub when certain jobs are executed

> An authenticated attacker with job execution privileges can cause a denial of service in KNIME Business Hub by exhausting internal message processing resources.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p36m-8r3w-rq6p

## What is CVE-2024-6598?

CVE-2024-6598 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub, published on 9 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A denial-of-service attack is possible through the execution functionality of KNIME Business Hub 1.10.0 and 1.10.1. It allows an authenticated attacker with job execution privileges to execute a job that causes internal messages to pile up until there are no more resources available for processing new messages. This leads to an outage of most functionality of KNIME Business Hub. Recovery from the situation is only possible by manual administrator interaction. Please contact our support for instructions in case you have run into this situation.

Updating to KNIME Business Hub 1.10.2 or later solves the problem.

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6598?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Knime Business Hub.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-6598?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6598 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6598 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6598 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in KNIME Business Hub

- [CVE-2025-2402](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2402/): Hard-coded password for object store of KNIME Business Hub (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-2787](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2787/): Ingress-nginx vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2025-14262](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14262/): Jobs can be saved as workflows with wrong permissions on KNIME Business Hub (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2025-11240](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11240/): Open redirect vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2025-3019](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3019/): Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in KNIME Business Hub web pages (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6598 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6598 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub, published on 9 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6598 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: KNIME Business Hub. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6598/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6598/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6598
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6598
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6598

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6598/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.