Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-03-20 CWE: CWE-400 Bugzilla: 1696062: CVE-2018-12545 jetty: large settings frames causing denial of service 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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-12545 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 4.2 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | Low |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-java-common-jetty | Affected |
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | jetty | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | jetty | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | jetty | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | jetty | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | jetty-eclipse | Not affected |
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