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Medium, CVSS 5.3amended

MLflow Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

CVE-2024-6838GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4

What to do

Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

This page has no inventory attached, so it cannot say whether you are affected. A vendor fix is not proof that your deployment is fixed.

Affected packages

  • PyPI mlflow

    Affected
    <= 2.13.2
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS
5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
  • CVE-2024-6838: 0.66% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 51.86 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

In mlflow/mlflow version v2.13.2, a vulnerability exists that allows the creation or renaming of an experiment with a large number of integers in its name due to the lack of a limit on the experiment name. This can cause the MLflow UI panel to become unresponsive, leading to a potential denial of service. Additionally, there is no character limit in the artifactlocation parameter while creating the experiment.

Dates and revisions
Published by the source
Last modified by the source
Source last checked
  1. Revision 2 · amended ·

    Amended from ghsa record GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4

  2. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from osv record GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4

Agent brief

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2024-6838

Advisory: MLflow Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
IDs: CVE-2024-6838, GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2024-6838 (revision 2, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:31 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- PyPI mlflow: affected <= 2.13.2

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `python -m pip show mlflow`: prints the installed version. Run with the environment that serves production active.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on mlflow.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4 (OSV record GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4 lists affected ranges: PyPI mlflow >=0 <=2.13.2)
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4 (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-q3gw-8236-5jw4 lists affected ranges: PyPI mlflow >=0 <=2.13.2)

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