CVE-2024-9823 Jetty DOS vulnerability on DosFilter
Attackers can cause remote denial-of-service on Jetty servers by exhausting memory via crafted requests to the DosFilter.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-9823?
CVE-2024-9823 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty, published on 14 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
There exists a security vulnerability in Jetty's DosFilter which can be exploited by unauthorized users to cause remote denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the server using DosFilter. By repeatedly sending crafted requests, attackers can trigger OutofMemory errors and exhaust the server's memory finally.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9823?
12 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets, org.eclipse.jetty.ee10:jetty-ee10-servlets and org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-servlets. It affects 3 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets Maven | From 10.0.0 | 10.0.18 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets Maven | From 10.0.0 | 10.0.18 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets Maven | From 11.0.0 | 11.0.18 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets Maven | From 11.0.0 | 11.0.18 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets Maven | From 9.0.0 | 9.4.54 |
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets Maven | From 9.0.0 | 9.4.54 |
6 more packages
org.eclipse.jetty.ee10:jetty-ee10-servlets Maven | From 12.0.0 | 12.0.3 |
org.eclipse.jetty.ee10:jetty-ee10-servlets Maven | From 12.0.0 | 12.0.3 |
org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-servlets Maven | From 12.0.0 | 12.0.3 |
org.eclipse.jetty.ee8:jetty-ee8-servlets Maven | From 12.0.0 | 12.0.3 |
org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-servlets Maven | From 12.0.0 | 12.0.3 |
org.eclipse.jetty.ee9:jetty-ee9-servlets Maven | From 12.0.0 | 12.0.3 |
Products include Eclipse Jetty, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Bootstrap Os.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9823?
Upgrade org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlets to a fixed version for your release line: 10.0.18, 11.0.18 or 9.4.54.
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-2024-9823 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9823 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-BU59456, CLEANSTART-2026-MV00348, CVE-2023-45817, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-9823, GHSA-7hcf-ppf8-5w5h, GHSA-j26w-f9rq-mr2q and 1 more.