🛡️ CVE-2024-6762 — jetty

🟢 CVSS 3.1 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
3.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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

github.com
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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

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

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

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