CVE-2024-8184

About vulnerability

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.

Affected product:

Apache Hadoop , Apache Kafka , Apache Lucene , Apache Spark , Eclipse Jetty , Spring , activemq , avro , cxf , gradle , htmlunit , jgit , lucene , solr , tika

Affected packages:

activemq-all @ 5.18.3 (+1725 more)

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.