CVE-2019-17638

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 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).

Category

9.4
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 32.22% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory eclipse.org
Affected: The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=564984 vendor advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/17/1 mailing list
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XE6US6VPZHOWFMUSFGDS5V2DNQPY5MKB/ vendor advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4bdd3f7bb6820a79f9416b6667d718a06d269018619a75ce4b759318%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E mailing list
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2019-17638?
CVE-2019-17638 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2019-17638?
To fix CVE-2019-17638, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2019-17638 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2019-17638 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~32% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2019-17638?
CVE-2019-17638 affects The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty.
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