CVE-2019-17638

Summary

CVECVE-2019-17638
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-09 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:06:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-672

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Jetty 9.4.27 20200227 All All
Application Eclipse Jetty 9.4.28 20200408 All All
Application Eclipse Jetty 9.4.29 20200521 All All
Application Eclipse Jetty 9.4.27 20200227 All All
Application Eclipse Jetty 9.4.28 20200408 All All
Application Eclipse Jetty 9.4.29 20200521 All All

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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 375577 IBM MQ Information Exposure Vulnerability (6393332)
  • 690455 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for jenkins (09ea1b08-1d3e-4bf2-91a1-d6573f4da3d8)
  • 770038 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.38 Security Update (RHSA-2020:3808)
  • 982247 Java (maven) Security Update for org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server (GHSA-x3rh-m7vp-35f2)
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