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Medium severity · published Oct 10, 2018
CVE-2018-12541
In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the WebSocket HTTP upgrade implementation buffers the full http request before doing the handshake, holding the entire request…
6.5
CVSS
2.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the WebSocket HTTP upgrade implementation buffers the full http request before doing the handshake, holding the entire request body in memory. There should be a reasonnable limit (8192 bytes) above which the WebSocket gets an HTTP response with the 413 status code and the connection gets closed.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.7% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VE
Vert.x · Eclipse
3.0.0 before 3.5.4 · source: NVD
Affected product
VE
Vert.x
Eclipse
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12541
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12541
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2946
Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539170
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/issues/2648
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r01123837ffbfdf5809e0a4ac354ad546e4ca8f18df89ee5a10eeb81b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r11789cd6d67ecca2d6f6bbb11e34495e68ee99287b6c59edf5b1a09c%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1af71105539fe01fcecb92d2ecd8eea56c515fb1c80ecab4df424553%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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