🛡️ CVE-2024-6762 — jetty
Description
Eclipse Jetty's PushSessionCacheFilter can cause remote DoS attacks
Impact
Jetty PushSessionCacheFilter can be exploited by unauthenticated users to launch remote DoS attacks by exhausting the server’s memory.
Patches
- https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/9715
- https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/9716
Workarounds
The session usage is intrinsic to the design of the PushCacheFilter. The issue can be avoided by:
+ not using the PushCacheFilter. Push has been deprecated by the various IETF specs and early hints responses should be used instead.
+ reducing the reducing the idle timeout on unauthenticated sessions will reduce the time such session stay in memory.
+ configuring a session cache to use [session passivation](https://jetty.org/docs/jetty/12/programming-guide/server/session.html), so that sessions are not stored in memory, but rather in a database or file system that may have significantly more capacity than memory.
References
- https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/10756
- https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/10755
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.
Weakness class
CVE-2024-6762 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.
Affected software
CVE-2024-6762 is recorded against 2 packages.
- jetty (from 12.0.0 up to 12.0.4)
- org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets (from 12.0.0 up to 12.0.4)
Timeline and source
Published on 14 October 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.
References
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gitlab.eclipse.org
lists.debian.org
CVE-2024-6762 on other distributions
Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| jetty | 12.0.0 | 12.0.4 |
| org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets | 12.0.0 | 12.0.4 |
References
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