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CVE-2024-41172 (GCVE-0-2024-41172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-19 08:50 – Updated: 2024-09-13 17:05
VLAI
Title
Apache CXF: Unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients
Summary
In versions of Apache CXF before 3.6.4 and 4.0.5 (3.5.x and lower versions are not impacted), a CXF HTTP client conduit may prevent HTTPClient instances from being garbage collected and it is possible that memory consumption will continue to increase, eventually causing the application to run out of memory
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-23 17:58 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF Affected: 3.6.0, 4.0.0 , < 3.6.4, 4.0.5 (semver)
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Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.5 (semver)
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