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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2024-41172

High
7.5/10

Summary

In Apache CXF, 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. This flaw leads to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability. This vulnerability affects org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http package versions 3.6.0 through 3.6.3 and 4.0.0 through 4.0.4.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published