CVE-2019-17638

CVSS v3.1 9.4 (Critical)
94% Progress
CVSS v2.0 7.5 (High)
75% Progress
EPSS 0.76 % (81th)
0.76% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 4

In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.4.27.v20200227 to 9.4.29.v20200521, in case of too large response headers, Jetty throws an exception to produce an HTTP 431 error. When this happens, the ByteBuffer containing the HTTP response headers is released back to the ByteBufferPool twice. Because of this double release, two threads can acquire the same ByteBuffer from the pool and while thread1 is about to use the ByteBuffer to write response1 data, thread2 fills the ByteBuffer with other data. Thread1 then proceeds to write the buffer that now contains different data. This results in client1, which issued request1 seeing data from another request or response which could contain sensitive data belonging to client2 (HTTP session ids, authentication credentials, etc.). If the Jetty version cannot be upgraded, the vulnerability can be significantly reduced by configuring a responseHeaderSize significantly larger than the requestHeaderSize (12KB responseHeaderSize and 8KB requestHeaderSize).

Weaknesses
CWE-672
Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release
CWE-675
Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Eclipse Foundation
Published Date
2020-07-09 18:15:10
(4 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-11-07 03:06:23
(10 months ago)

Affected Products

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Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Eclipse Jetty 9.4.27 20200227 cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.4.27:20200227
  Eclipse Jetty 9.4.28 20200408 cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.4.28:20200408
  Eclipse Jetty 9.4.29 20200521 cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.4.29:20200521
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