What is CVE-2024-53299?

CVE-2024-53299 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Wicket, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-01-23.

How severe is CVE-2024-53299?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Apache Wicket

CVE-2024-53299

The request handling in the core in Apache Wicket 7.0.0 on any platform allows an attacker to create a DOS via multiple requests to server resources. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 9.19.0 or 10.3.0, which fixes this issue.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.015 (70.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Apache Wicket
Apache Software Foundation Wicket — versions 7.0.0, 8.0.0-M1, 9.0.0-M1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

security@apache.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-53299?: CVE-2024-53299 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Wicket, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-01-23.
How severe is CVE-2024-53299?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.