CVE-2018-12545: Improper Input Validation

March 27, 2019 (updated October 9, 2019)

In Eclipse Jetty, 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.

References

bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538096
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12545

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