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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2024-41172 json

Apache CXF: Unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

published 2024-07-19 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-4mgg-fqfq-64hg , EUVD-2024-2246

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In versions of Apache CXF before 3.6.4 and 4.0.5 (3.5.x and lower versions are not impacted), a CXF HTTP client conduit may prevent HTTPClient instances from being garbage collected and it is possible that memory consumption will continue to increase, eventually causing the application to run out of memory

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http 3.6.4, 4.0.5
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF 3.6.4, 4.0.5
  • apache cxf 3.6.4, 4.0.5
  • eap8-hppc jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 0.8.1-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap8-log4j jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 2.22.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap
  • eap8-slf4j jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 2.0.16-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap8-jctools jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 4.0.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap8-jgroups jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 5.3.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap8-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 8.0.4-2.GA_redhat_00005.1.el8eap
  • eap8-narayana jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 6.0.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap8-asyncutil jboss enterprise application platform 8.0 0.1.0-2.redhat_00010.1.el8eap

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:8823RHSA-2024:8824

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-41172 updated cvss 7.5

apache: cxf: org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http: unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 cxf-rt-transports-http
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus cxf-rt-transports-http
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7052
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 8.0 for RHEL 8 eap8-hppc 0.8.1-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap8-log4j 2.22.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap, eap8-slf4j 2.0.16-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap8-jctools 4.0.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap8-asyncutil 0.1.0-2.redhat_00010.1.el8eap, eap8-saaj-impl 3.0.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, +74 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8823
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 8.0 for RHEL 9 eap8-hppc 0.8.1-2.redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap8-log4j 2.22.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el9eap, eap8-slf4j 2.0.16-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap8-jctools 4.0.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap8-asyncutil 0.1.0-2.redhat_00010.1.el9eap, eap8-saaj-impl 3.0.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap, +74 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8824
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8826
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 cxf-rt-transports-http Red Hat Build of Keycloak cxf-rt-transports-http Red Hat Fuse 7 cxf-rt-transports-http Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 cxf-rt-transports-http Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 cxf-rt-transports-http Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 cxf-rt-transports-http
    +3 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack cxf-rt-transports-http Red Hat Process Automation 7 cxf-rt-transports-http Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 cxf-rt-transports-http
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http
>=4.0.0, <4.0.5
>=3.6.0, <3.6.4
4.0.5
3.6.4

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF
  • apache cxf

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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