7.5

CVE-2018-12545: eclipse jetty Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-12545GHSA-h2f4-v4c4-6wx4
Published 27-03-2019Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-12545 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in eclipse jetty. EPSS estimates a 5.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
5.12%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 27-03-2019
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, 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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 3 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

5.12%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

92%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 5.12% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
5.12%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Eclipse1 product
  • jettyEOL9.3.0:20150601 | 9.3.0:20150608 | 9.3.0:20150612 | 9.3.0:maintenance0 | 9.3.0:maintenance1 | 9.3.0:maintenance2 | 9.3.0:rc0 | 9.3.0:rc1 | 9.3.1:20150714 | 9.3.2:20150730 | 9.3.3:20150825 | 9.3.3:20150827 | 9.3.4:20151005 | 9.3.4:20151007 | 9.3.4:rc0 | 9.3.4:rc1 | 9.3.5:20151012 | 9.3.6:20151106 | 9.3.7:20160115 | 9.3.7:rc0 | 9.3.7:rc1 | 9.3.8:20160311 | 9.3.8:20160314 | 9.3.8:rc0 | 9.3.9:20160517 | 9.3.9:maintenance_0 | 9.3.9:maintenance_1 | 9.3.10:20160621 | 9.3.10:maintenance_0 | 9.3.11:20160721 | 9.3.11:maintenance_0 | 9.3.12:20160915 | 9.3.13:20161014 | 9.3.13:maintenance_0 | 9.3.14:20161028 | 9.3.15:20161220 | 9.3.16:20170119 | 9.3.16:20170120 | 9.3.17:20170317 | 9.3.17:rc0 | 9.3.18:20170406 | 9.3.19:20170502 | 9.3.20:20170531 | 9.3.21:20170918 | 9.3.21:maintenance_0 | 9.3.21:rc0 | 9.3.22:20171030 | 9.3.23:20180228 | 9.3.24:20180605 | 9.4.0:20161207 | 9.4.0:20161208 | 9.4.0:20180619 | 9.4.0:maintenance_0 | 9.4.0:maintenance_1 | 9.4.0:rc0 | 9.4.0:rc1 | 9.4.0:rc2 | 9.4.0:rc3 | 9.4.1:20170120 | 9.4.1:20180619 | 9.4.2:20170220 | 9.4.2:20180619 | 9.4.3:20170317 | 9.4.3:20180619 | 9.4.4:20170410 | 9.4.4:20170414 | 9.4.4:20180619 | 9.4.5:20170502 | 9.4.5:20180619 | 9.4.6:20170531 | 9.4.6:20180619 | 9.4.7:20170914 | 9.4.7:20180619 | 9.4.7:rc0 | 9.4.8:20171121 | 9.4.8:20180619 | 9.4.9:20180320 | 9.4.10:20180503 | 9.4.10:rc0 | 9.4.10:rc1 | 9.4.11:20180605 | 9.4.12:rc0 | 9.4.12:rc1 | 9.4.12:rc2
Fedoraproject1 product
Org.eclipse.jetty1 product
  • jetty-server≥ 9.4.0, < 9.4.12.v20180830 | ≥ 9.3.0, < 9.3.25.v20180904
The eclipse foundation1 product
  • eclipse jetty≥ 9.3.0, < unspecified | ≥ unspecified, < 9.4.12
Ubuntu1 product
  • jetty9< 9.4.15-1~18.04.1ubuntu1

5 vendors · 5 products

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