CVE-2024-41172: Unrestricted memory consumption in CXF HTTP clients

Severity: low

Affected versions:

- Apache CXF 3.6.0, 4.0.0 before 3.6.4, 4.0.5

Description:

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

References:

https://cxf.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41172