GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-x3rh-m7vp-35f2 Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release in Jetty Server

CRITICAL Published 2020-08-05 Modified 2021-06-15 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-17638
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-672, CWE-675
Reviewed
2020-08-03

Affected packages

• Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server: >= 9.4.27, < 9.4.30.v20200611 → fixed in 9.4.30.v20200611

Description

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 response2 data. Thread1 then proceeds to write the buffer that now contains response2 data. This results in client1, which issued request1 and expects responses, to see response2 which could contain sensitive data belonging to client2 (HTTP session ids, authentication credentials, etc.).

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-17638 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-672 Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release weakness
  • CWE-675 Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context weakness

References