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CVE-2023-36478

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Published: Oct 10, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container. In versions 11.0.0 through 11.0.15, 10.0.0 through 10.0.15, and 9.0.0 through 9.4.52, an integer overflow in `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for HTTP/2 HPACK header values to exceed their size limit. `MetaDataBuilder.java` determines if a header name or value exceeds the size limit, and throws an exception if the limit is exceeded. However, when length is very large and huffman is true, the multiplication by 4 in line 295 will overflow, and length will become negative. `(_size+length)` will now be negative, and the check on line 296 will not be triggered. Furthermore, `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for user-entered HPACK header value sizes to be negative, potentially leading to a very large buffer allocation later on when the user-entered size is multiplied by 2. This means that if a user provides a negative length value (or, more precisely, a length value which, when multiplied by the 4/3 fudge factor, is negative), and this length value is a very large positive number when multiplied by 2, then the user can cause a very large buffer to be allocated on the server. Users of HTTP/2 can be impacted by a remote denial of service attack. The issue has been fixed in versions 11.0.16, 10.0.16, and 9.4.53. There are no known workarounds.

Affected (8)

1 product
Jetty
1 product
Jenkins
1 product
Debian Linux
Configuration A
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Eclipse
From 10.0.0 to 10.0.16
From 11.0.0 to 11.0.16
From 9.3.0 to 9.4.53
Configuration B
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Jenkins
Before 2.428
Before 2.414.3
Configuration C
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Debian
Version 10.0
Version 11.0
Version 12.0

References (20)

Source: security-advisories@github.com
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Issue TrackingPatch
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Release Notes
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Release Notes
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Release Notes
Source: security-advisories@github.com
ExploitVendor Advisory
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Mailing List
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue TrackingPatch
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
ExploitVendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

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