CVE-2023-36478

HIGH

Eclipse Jetty <11.0.15,10.0.15,9.4.52 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container. In versions 11.0.0 through 11.0.15, 10.0.0 through 10.0.15, and 9.0.0 through 9.4.52, an integer overflow in `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for HTTP/2 HPACK header values to exceed their size limit. `MetaDataBuilder.java` determines if a header name or value exceeds the size limit, and throws an exception if the limit is exceeded. However, when length is very large and huffman is true, the multiplication by 4 in line 295 will overflow, and length will become negative. `(_size+length)` will now be negative, and the check on line 296 will not be triggered. Furthermore, `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for user-entered HPACK header value sizes to be negative, potentially leading to a very large buffer allocation later on when the user-entered size is multiplied by 2. This means that if a user provides a negative length value (or, more precisely, a length value which, when multiplied by the 4/3 fudge factor, is negative), and this length value is a very large positive number when multiplied by 2, then the user can cause a very large buffer to be allocated on the server. Users of HTTP/2 can be impacted by a remote denial of service attack. The issue has been fixed in versions 11.0.16, 10.0.16, and 9.4.53. There are no known workarounds.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0146
EPSS Percentile 81.1%
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-190 CWE-400
Status published
Products (8)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
debian/debian_linux 12.0
eclipse/jetty 9.3.0 - 9.4.53
jenkins/jenkins < 2.414.3
jenkins/jenkins < 2.428
org.eclipse.jetty.http2/http2-hpack 10.0.0 - 10.0.16Maven
org.eclipse.jetty.http3/http3-qpack 10.0.0 - 10.0.16Maven
Published Oct 10, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026