CVE-2024-53299 Apache Wicket: An attacker can intentionally trigger a memory leak

What is CVE-2024-53299?

CVE-2024-53299 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Wicket, published on 23 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The request handling in the core in Apache Wicket 7.0.0 on any platform allows an attacker to create a DOS via multiple requests to server resources. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 9.19.0 or 10.3.0, which fixes this issue.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53299?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.wicket:wicket-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Wicket.

How do I fix CVE-2024-53299?

Upgrade org.apache.wicket:wicket-core to a fixed version for your release line: 10.3.0, 8.17.0 or 9.19.0.

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-2024-53299 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53299 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Wicket

• CVE-2024-36522 Apache Wicket: Remote code execution via XSLT injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-40010 Apache Wicket: possible session fixation using AuthenticatedWebSession Critical 9.1
• CVE-2016-6793 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2016-6806 Apache Wicket vulnerable to CSRF attacks High 8.8
• CVE-2026-71257 Apache Wicket: Configured file upload limits are not enforced when the multipart request has already been parsed High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-9cxr-76pm-j3wf.