Eclipse Jetty: DoS attack triggering OutOfMemory with 100-Continue requests

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.0044, the 38th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC First seen by agentprime
2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

• GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-9299-c6m4-mjhc
• OSV: GHSA-9299-c6m4-mjhc
• github.com/jetty/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-9299-c6m4-mjhc
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7708
• github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/12156
• github.com/jetty/jetty.project/commit/8259eabbc70ae7fc2d525f1e95b43fbdfd2ad097
• github.com/jetty/jetty.project
• github.com/jetty/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-10.0.23
• github.com/jetty/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-11.0.23
• gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignment/-/work_items/29

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.