CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-36478

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-10-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-190, CWE-400

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.

Affected configurations

• eclipse jetty (>= 9.3.0 < 9.4.53) • eclipse jetty (>= 10.0.0 < 10.0.16) • eclipse jetty (>= 11.0.0 < 11.0.16) • jenkins jenkins (< 2.414.3) • jenkins jenkins (< 2.428) • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0 • debian debian linux 12.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References