CVE-2024-41172

Apache CXF: Unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS: EPSS 1.20 % · percentile 68 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-07-19
Updated: 2024-09-13
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Modified

Description

In versions of Apache CXF before 3.6.4 and 4.0.5 (3.5.x and lower versions are not impacted), a CXF HTTP client conduit may prevent HTTPClient instances from being garbage collected and it is possible that memory consumption will continue to increase, eventually causing the application to run out of memory

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-401

Advisories

GHSA-4mgg-fqfq-64hg — Apache CXF allows unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-2246
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-41172

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 3.6.0 < 3.6.4
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.0.0 < 4.0.5

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache CXF	affected 3.6.0, 4.0.0 < 3.6.4, 4.0.5

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD