{"id":59570,"date":"2025-07-22T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:30:30","slug":"cve-2024-9342-high-risk-login-brute-force-vulnerability-in-eclipse-glassfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-9342-high-risk-login-brute-force-vulnerability-in-eclipse-glassfish\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2024-9342: High-Risk Login Brute Force Vulnerability in Eclipse GlassFish<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE-2024-9342 is a high-risk vulnerability present in Eclipse GlassFish version 7.0.16 or earlier. It allows potential attackers to execute Login Brute Force attacks due to a lack of restrictions on the number of failed login attempts. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to businesses and organizations that employ the Eclipse GlassFish software, as it could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43933-high-risk-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise-via-password-reset-feature\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70834\">lead to system compromise<\/a> or data leakage. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47998-severe-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-windows-routing-and-remote-access-service\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69391\">severity and potential impact of this vulnerability<\/a> stress the importance of swift mitigation and patch application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2024-9342<br \/>\nSeverity: Critical (CVSS: 9.8)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-46334-critical-vulnerability-in-git-gui-enables-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70835\">System compromise and potential<\/a> data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2317048098\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>Eclipse GlassFish | 7.0.16 and earlier<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploit takes advantage of the lack of restrictions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8342-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-in-woocommerce-otp-login-with-phone-number-otp-verification-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"76683\">number of failed login<\/a> attempts in the targeted product. This allows an attacker to undertake a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7393-critical-brute-force-vulnerability-in-drupal-mail-login\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69390\">Brute Force<\/a> attack, continually trying different combinations of credentials until they eventually guess the correct ones. The absence of measures to prevent or limit such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-46414-unlimited-pin-attempts-vulnerability-in-api\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"81234\">attempts gives the attacker an unlimited<\/a> number of guesses, dramatically increasing the chances of a successful breach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1542674447\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>A crude, yet effective, conceptual exploit might take the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52478-stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-n8n-s-form-trigger-node\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"79435\">form of a Python script<\/a> using a library such as &#8220;requests&#8221; to iteratively send POST requests with different credential combinations. Below is a highly simplified example:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">import requests\nurl = &quot;http:\/\/target.example.com\/login&quot;\npayload = {&quot;username&quot;: &quot;admin&quot;, &quot;password&quot;: &quot;password&quot;}\nfor password in password_list:\npayload[&#039;password&#039;] = password\nresponse = requests.post(url, data=payload)\nif response.status_code == 200:\nprint(f&quot;Successful login with password: {password}&quot;)\nbreak<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the `password_list` would contain a large number of possible passwords. The script sends a POST request to the login page with each password until it receives a successful login response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation Guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To mitigate this vulnerability, companies are advised to apply the vendor patch as soon as it becomes available. In the interim, using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can help prevent or at least detect such brute force attacks. More importantly, organizations should consider implementing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9636-cross-origin-opener-policy-vulnerability-in-pgadmin-allows-account-takeovers\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"87098\">account lockout or delay policies<\/a> after a certain number of failed login attempts to minimize the risk of brute force attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview CVE-2024-9342 is a high-risk vulnerability present in Eclipse GlassFish version 7.0.16 or earlier. It allows potential attackers to execute Login Brute Force attacks due to a lack of restrictions on the number of failed login attempts. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to businesses and organizations that employ the Eclipse GlassFish software, as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-59570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79943,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59570\/revisions\/79943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=59570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}