CVE-2018-12545
HIGH7.5EPSS 3.5%Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Published: 3/28/2019Modified: 3/30/2026
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Maven/org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server>= 9.4.0, < 9.4.12.v20180830
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h2f4-v4c4-6wx4
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12545
- WEBhttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538096
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/13f5241048ec0bf966a6ddd306feaf40de5b20e1f09096b9cddeddf2@%3Ccommits.accumulo.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70744fe4faba8e2fa7e50a7fc794dd03cb28dad8b21e08ee59bb1606@%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/febc94ffec9275dcda64633e0276a1400cd318e571009e4cda9b7a79@%3Cnotifications.accumulo.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CIS4LALKZNLF5X5IGNGRSKERG7FY4QG6
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html