CVE-2018-12545

In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames. The vulnerability is due to the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - emo@eclipse.org

Published

2019-03-27

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-400, CWE-770

Affected products

• Jetty (Eclipse)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Eclipse Jetty (The Eclipse Foundation)

References

• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538096
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/13f5241048ec0bf966a6ddd306feaf40de5b20e1f09096b9cddeddf2%40%3Ccommits.accumulo.apa…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70744fe4faba8e2fa7e50a7fc794dd03cb28dad8b21e08ee59bb1606%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/febc94ffec9275dcda64633e0276a1400cd318e571009e4cda9b7a79%40%3Cnotifications.accumu…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apach…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CIS4LALKZNLF5X5IGNGRSK…
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html