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ubuntu-cve-2024-6762

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-10-14 16:15

Modified

2025-10-24 05:06

Summary

Details

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

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-6762	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6762	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/a…	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/9715	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/9716	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/10756	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/10755	REPORT

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-14 15:07 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:34

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 (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

eclipse

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/a…
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assigneme…
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/9715
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/9716
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/10756
https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/10755
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
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)

Date Public

2024-10-14 15:00

Credits

Lian Kee

Show details on NVD website

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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

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