CVE-2004-2381

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

HttpRequest.java in Jetty HTTP Server before 4.2.19 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service (memory usage and application crash) via HTTP requests with a large Content-Length.

Affected products

Jetty Http Server: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.1_rc0, 4.0.1_rc1, 4.0.1_rc2, 4.0.2 (+61)

References

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/jetty/Jetty/src/org/mortbay/http/HttpRequest.java?r1=1.75&r2=1.76
http://secunia.com/advisories/11166/
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=224743
http://www.osvdb.org/4387
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9917
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15537
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/jetty/Jetty/src/org/mortbay/http/HttpRequest.java?r1=1.75&r2=1.76
http://secunia.com/advisories/11166/
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=224743
http://www.osvdb.org/4387
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9917
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15537

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