CVE-2024-41172 Apache CXF: Unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

What is CVE-2024-41172?

CVE-2024-41172 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Cxf, published on 19 Jul 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In versions of Apache CXF before 3.6.4 and 4.0.5 (3.5.x and lower versions are not impacted), a CXF HTTP client conduit may prevent HTTPClient instances from being garbage collected and it is possible that memory consumption will continue to increase, eventually causing the application to run out of memory

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-41172?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Cxf.

How do I fix CVE-2024-41172?

Upgrade org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http to a fixed version for your release line: 3.6.4 or 4.0.5.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-41172 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41172 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Cxf

• CVE-2012-2379 XML Signature/Encryption Not Validated in Apache CXF Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-66909 Apache CXF: Unsafe deserialization of inbound JMS ObjectMessage Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-68079 Apache CXF: DefaultEncryptingCodeDataProvider allows unlimited authorization code replay Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-50628 Apache CXF: OAuth2: Inverted IP Binding Check Defeats Security Control Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-48913 Apache CXF: Untrusted JMS configuration can lead to RCE Critical 9.8

All Apache Cxf vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4mgg-fqfq-64hg.