High severity · published Mar 27, 2019
CVE-2018-12545
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…
7.5
CVSS
5.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.1% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
28 · source: NVD
JE
Jetty · Eclipse
9.3.0; 9.3.0; 9.3.0; 9.3.0; 9.3.0; 9.3.0; +34 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12545
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12545
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538096
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/13f5241048ec0bf966a6ddd306feaf40de5b20e1f09096b9cddeddf2%40%3Ccommits.accumulo.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70744fe4faba8e2fa7e50a7fc794dd03cb28dad8b21e08ee59bb1606%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/febc94ffec9275dcda64633e0276a1400cd318e571009e4cda9b7a79%40%3Cnotifications.accumulo.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
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