cvelist/2024/6xxx/CVE-2024-6762.json

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                "value": "Jetty PushSessionCacheFilter can be exploited by unauthenticated users \nto launch remote DoS attacks by exhausting the server\u2019s memory."
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                        "value": "CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption",
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            {
                "url": "https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-r7m4-f9h5-gr79",
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                "url": "https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/24",
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                "name": "https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/24"
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                "url": "https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/9715",
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                "url": "https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/10756",
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                    "value": "<p>The session usage is intrinsic to the design of the PushCacheFilter.  The issue can be avoided by:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>not using the PushCacheFilter.  Push has been deprecated by the \nvarious IETF specs and early hints responses should be used instead.</li>\n<li>reducing the reducing the idle timeout on unauthenticated sessions will reduce the time such session stay in memory.</li>\n<li>configuring a session cache to use <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://jetty.org/docs/jetty/12/programming-guide/server/session.html\">session passivation</a>,\n so that sessions are not stored in memory, but rather in a database or \nfile system that may have significantly more capacity than memory.</li>\n</ul>"
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            "value": "The session usage is intrinsic to the design of the PushCacheFilter.  The issue can be avoided by:\n\n\n\n  *  not using the PushCacheFilter.  Push has been deprecated by the \nvarious IETF specs and early hints responses should be used instead.\n\n  *  reducing the reducing the idle timeout on unauthenticated sessions will reduce the time such session stay in memory.\n\n  *  configuring a session cache to use  session passivation https://jetty.org/docs/jetty/12/programming-guide/server/session.html ,\n so that sessions are not stored in memory, but rather in a database or \nfile system that may have significantly more capacity than memory."
        }
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    "credits": [
        {
            "lang": "en",
            "value": "Lian Kee"
        }
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                "attackComplexity": "HIGH",
                "attackVector": "NETWORK",
                "availabilityImpact": "LOW",
                "baseScore": 3.1,
                "baseSeverity": "LOW",
                "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
                "integrityImpact": "NONE",
                "privilegesRequired": "LOW",
                "scope": "UNCHANGED",
                "userInteraction": "NONE",
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