Vulnerability

CVE-2024-8184
CVSS Score 6.5 medium

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400

[CVE-2024-8184] CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Description

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.

See org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server package information