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high 7.5

CVE-2024-7708 json

Eclipse Jetty: DoS attack triggering OutOfMemory with 100-Continue requests

published 2026-07-14 3 mo ago modified 2026-10-02 38 d ago also GHSA-9299-c6m4-mjhc , EUVD-2024-55651

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

For requests that have a body, but reading the body may end up in reading 0 bytes, there is a buffer leak. This is particularly the case for 100-Continue, but any request where the network is slow can leak.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server 10.0.23, 11.0.23
  • Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty 10.0.23, 11.0.23

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-2024-7708 updated cvss 7.5

jetty: Eclipse Jetty: Denial of Service due to buffer leak in handling certain HTTP requests

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jetty-io, jetty-ant, jetty-jmx, jetty-jsp, jetty-xml, jetty-http, +30 more
    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
3 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
>=10.0.7, <10.0.23
>=11.0.7, <11.0.23
10.0.23
11.0.23

Affected products

  • Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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