CVE-2018-12545

HIGH

Eclipse Jetty 9.3.x-9.4.x - Denial of Service via Large or Numerous SETTINGS Frames

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (9)

Core 9

Core References

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70744fe4faba8e2fa7e50a7fc794dd03cb28dad8b21e08ee59bb1606%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/febc94ffec9275dcda64633e0276a1400cd318e571009e4cda9b7a79%40%3Cnotifications.accumulo.apache.org%3E

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/13f5241048ec0bf966a6ddd306feaf40de5b20e1f09096b9cddeddf2%40%3Ccommits.accumulo.apache.org%3E

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CIS4LALKZNLF5X5IGNGRSKERG7FY4QG6/

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538096

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0508

EPSS Percentile 91.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-400 CWE-770

Status published

Products (26)

eclipse/jetty 9.3.0 20150601 (8 CPE variants)

eclipse/jetty 9.3.1 20150714

eclipse/jetty 9.3.2 20150730

eclipse/jetty 9.3.3 20150825 (2 CPE variants)

eclipse/jetty 9.3.4 20151005 (4 CPE variants)

eclipse/jetty 9.3.5 20151012

eclipse/jetty 9.3.6 20151106

eclipse/jetty 9.3.7 20160115 (3 CPE variants)

eclipse/jetty 9.3.8 20160311 (3 CPE variants)

eclipse/jetty 9.3.9 20160517 (3 CPE variants)

... and 16 more

Published Mar 27, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026