CVE-2024-8020: Lightningai Pytorch Lightning

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning version 2.3.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an unexpected POST request to the `/api/v1/state` endpoint of `LightningApp`. This issue occurs due to improper handling of unexpected state values, which results in the server shutting down.

Affected products

• Lightningai Pytorch Lightning: version 2.3.2 only

Published 2025-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.