CVE-2024-7708 Eclipse Jetty: DoS attack triggering OutOfMemory with 100-Continue requests
Attackers can cause a buffer leak in Eclipse Jetty by sending requests with bodies that read zero bytes, leading to resource exhaustion and denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-7708?
CVE-2024-7708 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty, published on 14 Jul 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
For requests that have a body, but reading the body may end up in reading 0 bytes, there is a buffer leak. This is particularly the case for 100-Continue, but any request where the network is slow can leak.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7708?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server Maven | From 10.0.7 | 10.0.23 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server Maven | From 10.0.7 | 10.0.23 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server Maven | From 11.0.7 | 11.0.23 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server Maven | From 11.0.7 | 11.0.23 |
Products include Eclipse Jetty.
How do I fix CVE-2024-7708?
Upgrade org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server to a fixed version for your release line: 10.0.23 or 11.0.23.
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-2024-7708 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7708 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
- CVE-2019-17638 Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release in Jetty Server
- CVE-2018-12538 Access and integrity issue within Eclipse Jetty
- CVE-2026-10050 Digest authentication lossy encoding
- CVE-2025-5115 MadeYouReset HTTP/2 vulnerability
Sources
Also known as CLEANSTART-2026-MF87519, CLSA-2026-1785292544, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-7708, GHSA-9299-c6m4-mjhc, MINI-87r4-vv3w-39r4, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-7708.