CVE-2024-8184Jetty ThreadLimitHandler.getRemote() vulnerable to remote DoS attacks
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
There exists a security vulnerability in Jetty's ThreadLimitHandler.getRemote() which can be exploited by unauthorized users to cause remote denial-of-service (DoS) attack. By repeatedly sending crafted requests, attackers can trigger OutofMemory errors and exhaust the server's memory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By eclipse
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| eclipseCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
- affected 9.3.12 – ≤ 9.4.55
- affected 10.0.0 – ≤ 10.0.23
- affected 11.0.0 – ≤ 11.0.23
- affected 12.0.0 – ≤ 12.0.8
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-serverGHSA-g8m5-722r-8whq (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: Do not use ThreadLimitHandler. Consider use of QoSHandler instead to artificially limit resource utilization.
References
References4
- https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-g8m5-722r-8whq (opens in a new tab)
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/30 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/11723 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-3044 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g8m5-722r-8whq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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