CVE-2024-6762 (GCVE-0-2024-6762)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-14 15:07 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:34
VLAI
Title
Jetty PushSessionCacheFilter can cause remote DoS attacks
Summary
Jetty PushSessionCacheFilter can be exploited by unauthenticated users to launch remote DoS attacks by exhausting the server’s memory.
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-15 17:42 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Eclipse Foundation Jetty Affected: 10.0.0 , ≤ 10.0.17 (semver)
Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 11.0.17 (semver)
Affected: 12.0.0 , ≤ 12.0.3 (semver)
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Date Public
2024-10-14 15:00
Credits
Lian Kee
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  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.