7.5
HIGH
CVE-2024-39721
Ollama denial of service (DoS)
Description

An issue was discovered in Ollama before 0.1.34. The CreateModelHandler function uses os.Open to read a file until completion. The req.Path parameter is user-controlled and can be set to /dev/random, which is blocking, causing the goroutine to run infinitely (even after the HTTP request is aborted by the client).

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 31, 2024, 8:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 1, 2024, 4:35 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

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No affected product recoded yet

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2024-39721 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • The Hacker News
Critical Flaws in Ollama AI Framework Could Enable DoS, Model Theft, and Poisoning

Vulnerability / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could be exploited by a malicious actor to perform va ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 04, 2024 (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
Six Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Ollama: Risks of AI Model Theft and Poisoning

10K unique internet-facing IPs that run Ollama | Image: OligoOligo’s research team recently unveiled six vulnerabilities in Ollama, a popular open-source framework for running large language models (L ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 04, 2024 (1 month, 2 weeks ago)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-39721 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Nov. 01, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE CISA-ADP CWE-404
    Added CVSS V3.1 CISA-ADP AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 01, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://www.oligo.security/blog/more-models-more-probllms [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://oligosecurity.webflow.io/blog/more-models-more-probllms
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 31, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description An issue was discovered in Ollama before 0.1.34. The CreateModelHandler function uses os.Open to read a file until completion. The req.Path parameter is user-controlled and can be set to /dev/random, which is blocking, causing the goroutine to run infinitely (even after the HTTP request is aborted by the client).
    Added Reference MITRE https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/9164b0161bcb24e543cba835a8863b80af2c0c21/server/routes.go#L557 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/adeb40eaf29039b8964425f69a9315f9f1694ba8/server/routes.go#L536 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://oligosecurity.webflow.io/blog/more-models-more-probllms [No types assigned]
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