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high7.5

CVE-2024-41172

Apache CXF allows unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

Impact

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 packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.54.0.5

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ApacheCxf
from 3.6.0 before 3.6.4
from 4.0.0 before 4.0.5

Weakness classification

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