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CVE-2004-2381

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2381 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Jetty HTTP Server versions prior to 4.2.19, where remote attackers can crash the application and exhaust memory by sending HTTP requests with excessively large Content-Length headers. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no authentication, leading to partial availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jetty:jetty_http_server:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jetty:jetty_http_server:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1_rc0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jetty:jetty_http_server:4.0.1_rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1_rc1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jetty:jetty_http_server:4.0.1_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1_rc2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jetty:jetty_http_server:4.0.1_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0180 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.mortbay.jetty:jettyFixed in: 4.2.19

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-p5rr-q5g6-gm42medium

Jetty HTTP Server Denial of Service vulnerability

Apr 29, 2022

References

cvs.sourceforge.net / viewcvs.py/jetty/Jetty/src/org/mortbay/http/HttpRequest.java
secunia.com / advisories/11166
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15537
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
osvdb.org / 4387
securityfocus.com / bid/9917