QID 730617

Date Published: 2022-09-28

QID 730617: Eclipse Jetty Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability

Eclipse Jetty is a Java HTTP server and Java Servlet container. While Web Servers are usually associated with serving documents to people, Jetty is now often used for machine to machine communications, usually within larger software frameworks.

In Eclipse Jetty HTTP/2 server implementation, when encountering an invalid HTTP/2 request, the error handling has a bug that can wind up not properly cleaning up the active connections and associated resources.

Versions Affected:
Eclipse Jetty Prior to 9.4.47
Eclipse Jetty 10.0.0 to 10.0.9
Eclipse Jetty 11.0.0 to 11.0.9
QID Detection Logic:(Unauthenticated)
It looks at http banner to check for vulnerable version of Jetty.

This can lead to a Denial of Service scenario where there are no enough resources left to process good requests.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
    • Solution

    Customers are advised to refer to eclipse Jetty for more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 730617

    CVE-2022-2048 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    eclipse Jetty URL Logo www.eclipse.org/jetty/security_reports.php
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