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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2024-41172 EUVD-2024-2246GHSA-4mgg-fqfq-64hg

Apache CXF: Unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

Published Jul 19, 2024 · Updated Sep 13, 2024 · Assigned by apache

Vendor: Apache Software Foundation Product: Apache CXF Package: org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http Ecosystem: Maven

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF 3.6.0, 4.0.0 – < 3.6.4, 4.0.5 3.6.4, 4.0.5

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-activemq-artemis +14 2.33.0-1.redhat_00015.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-aesh-extensions 1.8.0-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-aesh-readline 2.2.0-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-apache-commons-codec 1.16.1-2.redhat_00007.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-apache-commons-collections 3.2.2-28.redhat_2.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-apache-commons-io 2.15.1-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-apache-commons-lang 3.14.0-2.redhat_00006.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-apache-cxf +3 4.0.5-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-artemis-native +2 1:2.0.0-2.redhat_00005.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-artemis-wildfly-integration 2.0.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-asyncutil 0.1.0-2.redhat_00010.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-aws-java-sdk +4 1.12.284-2.redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-cryptacular 1.2.5-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-eap-product-conf-parent +1 800.4.0-1.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-fastinfoset 2.1.0-4.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-hibernate +2 6.2.31-1.Final_redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-hibernate-validator +1 8.0.1-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-hppc 0.8.1-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jakarta-servlet-jsp-jstl +1 3.0.1-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jboss-cert-helper +1 1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jboss-logging 3.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jctools +1 4.0.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jgroups 5.3.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-log4j 2.22.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-narayana +8 6.0.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-nimbus-jose-jwt 9.37.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-objectweb-asm +1 9.6.0-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-pem-keystore 2.3.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-resteasy-extensions +1 2.0.1-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-resteasy-spring 3.0.1-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-saaj-impl 3.0.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-shibboleth-java-support 8.0.0-6.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-slf4j +1 2.0.16-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-snakeyaml 2.2.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly +4 8.0.4-2.GA_redhat_00005.1.el8eap RHSA-2024:8824, RHSA-2024:8823

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 4.0.5 GHSA-4mgg-fqfq-64hg
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http >= 3.6.0, < 3.6.4 3.6.4 GHSA-4mgg-fqfq-64hg

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