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ubuntu-cve-2024-8184

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-10-14 16:15

Modified

2025-10-24 05:06

Summary

Details

There exists a security vulnerability in Jetty's ThreadLimitHandler.getRemote() which can be exploited by unauthorized users to cause remote denial-of-service (DoS) attack. By repeatedly sending crafted requests, attackers can trigger OutofMemory errors and exhaust the server's memory.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


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

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-2024-8184	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8184	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/a…	REPORT
	https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assigneme…	REPORT
	https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/11723	REPORT

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CVE-2024-8184 (GCVE-0-2024-8184)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-14 15:09 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:34

Title

Jetty ThreadLimitHandler.getRemote() vulnerable to remote DoS attacks

Summary

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

eclipse

References

4 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/11723
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Eclipse Foundation	Jetty	Affected: 9.3.12 , ≤ 9.4.55 (semver) Affected: 10.0.0 , ≤ 10.0.23 (semver) Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 11.0.23 (semver) Affected: 12.0.0 , ≤ 12.0.8 (semver)

Date Public

2024-10-14 03:00

Credits

https://github.com/HRsGIT

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2024-8184 (GCVE-0-2024-8184)

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