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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2024-8184 json

Jetty ThreadLimitHandler.getRemote() vulnerable to remote DoS attacks

published 2024-10-14 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-3044 , GHSA-g8m5-722r-8whq

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There exists a security vulnerability in Jetty's ThreadLimitHandler.getRemote() which can be exploited by unauthorized users to cause remote denial-of-service (DoS) attack. By repeatedly sending crafted requests, attackers can trigger OutofMemory errors and exhaust the server's memory.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server 9.4.56, 10.0.24, 11.0.24, 12.0.9
  • eclipse jetty 9.4.56, 10.0.24, 11.0.24, 12.0.9
  • org.eclipse.jetty jetty-server 9.4.56, 10.0.24, 11.0.24, 12.0.9
  • jetty9 Debian 12 9.4.57-0+deb12u1
  • jetty9 Debian 14, Debian 13 9.4.56-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-8184

  • jetty-minimal SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP6, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5 +2 more 9.4.56-150200.3.28.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3720-1

  • jetty-minimal openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.4.56-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14408-1

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-2024-8184 updated cvss 6.5

org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server: jetty: Jetty ThreadLimitHandler.getRemote() vulnerable to remote DoS attacks

  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat AMQ Clients jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Build of Keycloak jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix available
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  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 jetty-server Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jetty-server
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat HawtIO 4.0.0 for Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:11023
  • Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:9571
  • Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:2416
  • Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server Red Hat build of Debezium 2 jetty-server Red Hat Data Grid 8 jetty-server Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 jetty-server Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 jetty-server Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6 jetty-server
    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
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
>=12.0.0, <12.0.9
>=10.0.0, <10.0.24
>=11.0.0, <11.0.24
>=9.3.12, <9.4.56
12.0.9
10.0.24
11.0.24
9.4.56

Affected products

  • Eclipse Foundation Jetty

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.