Service interruption via unbounded session-state allocation
Published Oct 14, 2024 · Updated Nov 3, 2025
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Eclipse Jetty allows remote attackers to exhaust server memory through unauthenticated requests. PushSessionCacheFilter creates a session for every request and records requested URIs in per-session and global maps without size limits. Exploitation requires the filter to be enabled; repeated unauthenticated requests retain session state until memory pressure interrupts the server.
Summary
What happened
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Eclipse Jetty allows remote attackers to exhaust server memory through unauthenticated requests. PushSessionCacheFilter creates a session for every request and records requested URIs in per-session and global maps without size limits. Exploitation requires the filter to be enabled; repeated unauthenticated requests retain session state until memory pressure interrupts the server.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-6762
- Published
- Oct 14, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Vendor
- The Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse Jetty
- Classifications
- CWE-400, CWE-770, T1499.003
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 14, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 3, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.0 <=10.0.17
- Affected versionversion=11.0.0 <=11.0.17
- Affected versionversion=12.0.0 <=12.0.3
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