GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-r7m4-f9h5-gr79 Eclipse Jetty's PushSessionCacheFilter can cause remote DoS attacks

LOW Published 2024-10-14 Modified 2025-11-03 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-6762
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets
Severity
Low
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770
Reviewed
2024-10-14

Affected packages

• Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets: >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.18 → fixed in 10.0.18 • Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets: >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.18 → fixed in 11.0.18 • Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets: >= 12.0.0, < 12.0.4 → fixed in 12.0.4

Description

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, 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

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-6762 Jetty PushSessionCacheFilter can be exploited by unauthenticated users to launch remote DoS attacks by exhausting the server’s memory. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References