High severity · published Oct 10, 2023
CVE-2023-36478
Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container
7.5
CVSS
4.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
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)4.8% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JE
Jenkins · Jenkins
before 2.414.3; before 2.428 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0; 12.0 · source: NVD
JE
Jetty · Eclipse
9.3.0 before 9.4.53; 10.0.0 before 10.0.16; 11.0.0 before 11.0.16 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36478
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36478
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/4
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9634
Release Notes
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-10.0.16
Release Notes
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-11.0.16
Release Notes
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-9.4.53.v20231009
Exploit
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98r
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