GHSA-xgfm-992v-h2hr — magento/project-community…
HIGHGHSA-xgfm-992v-h2hr is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in magento/project-community-edition. A fix is available for magento/project-community-edition — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Magento vulnerable to denial of service
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- 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-xgfm-992v-h2hr.
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-xgfm-992v-h2hr 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 377,166 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
Magento versions 2.4.9-alpha1, 2.4.8-p1, 2.4.7-p6, 2.4.6-p11, 2.4.5-p13, 2.4.4-p14 and earlier are affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted input, causing the application to crash or become unresponsive. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | magento/project-community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.9-alpha1&&< 2.4.9-alpha2 | 2.4.9-alpha2composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.9-alpha2 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.8-beta1&&< 2.4.8-p2 | 2.4.8-p2composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.8-p2 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.7-beta1&&< 2.4.7-p7 | 2.4.7-p7composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.7-p7 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.6-p1&&< 2.4.6-p12 | 2.4.6-p12composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.6-p12 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | 2.4.5-p14composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.5-p14 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/project-community-edition, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
No patched version of magento/project-community-edition has shipped for GHSA-xgfm-992v-h2hr 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-xgfm-992v-h2hr can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-xgfm-992v-h2hr. 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-xgfm-992v-h2hr in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-xgfm-992v-h2hr across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.