CVE-2024-6762 Jetty PushSessionCacheFilter can cause remote DoS attacks

What is CVE-2024-6762?

CVE-2024-6762 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty, published on 14 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Jetty PushSessionCacheFilter can be exploited by unauthenticated users to launch remote DoS attacks by exhausting the server’s memory.

Weakness: CWE-770, CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6762?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets. It affects 1 product.

Products include Eclipse Jetty.

How do I fix CVE-2024-6762?

Upgrade org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets to a fixed version for your release line: 10.0.18, 11.0.18 or 12.0.4.

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-2024-6762 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6762 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Eclipse Jetty

• CVE-2016-4800 Jetty contains an alias issue that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution due to specially crafted request Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-17638 Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release in Jetty Server Critical 9.4
• CVE-2018-12538 Access and integrity issue within Eclipse Jetty High 8.8
• CVE-2026-10050 Digest authentication lossy encoding High 8.7
• CVE-2025-5115 MadeYouReset HTTP/2 vulnerability High 7.7

All Eclipse Jetty vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6762, GHSA-r7m4-f9h5-gr79, OESA-2024-2362, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-6762.