GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r — magento/community-edition
MEDIUMGHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.9) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in magento/community-edition. A fix is available for magento/community-edition — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Magento Open Source allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 379,145 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.6-p3, 2.4.5-p5, 2.4.4-p6 and earlier are affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to an application denial-of-service. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, causing the application to slow down or crash. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.6-p1&&< 2.4.6-p4 | 2.4.6-p4composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.6-p4 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.5-p1&&< 2.4.5-p6 | 2.4.5-p6composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.5-p6 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.4-p1&&< 2.4.4-p7 | 2.4.4-p7composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.4-p7 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/community-edition, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
No patched version of magento/community-edition has shipped for GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-c9h9-h5gf-885r across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.