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CVE-2025-1948 (GCVE-0-2025-1948)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-08 17:48 – Updated: 2025-05-08 18:31
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Title
Eclipse Jetty HTTP clients can increase memory allocation
Summary
In Eclipse Jetty versions 12.0.0 to 12.0.16 included, an HTTP/2 client can specify a very large value for the HTTP/2 settings parameter SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE. The Jetty HTTP/2 server does not perform validation on this setting, and tries to allocate a ByteBuffer of the specified capacity to encode HTTP responses, likely resulting in OutOfMemoryError being thrown, or even the JVM process exiting.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-08 18:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Eclipse Foundation Jetty Affected: 12.0.0 , ≤ 12.0.16 (semver)
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