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H2O Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) and File Write

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 20, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 15, 2025

Package

maven ai.h2o:h2o-ext-xgboost (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 3.34.0.1, <= 3.46.0.1

Patched versions

None
pip h2o (pip)
>= 3.34.0.1, <= 3.46.0.1
None

Description

In h2oai/h2o-3 version 3.46.0.1, the run_tool command exposes classes in the water.tools package through the ast parser. This includes the XGBoostLibExtractTool class, which can be exploited to shut down the server and write large files to arbitrary directories, leading to a denial of service.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 20, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 20, 2025
Reviewed Mar 20, 2025
Last updated Oct 15, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(33rd percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Learn more on MITRE.

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-10572

GHSA ID

GHSA-wjpv-64v2-2qpq

Source code

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