CVE-2019-17638

Description

In 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 Information

Base Score
9.4
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
30.928

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-17638 are fixed in Eclipse-jetty-server 9.4.30Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM UrbanCode Deploy 7.0.3.0Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM UrbanCode Deploy 7.0.4.0Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM UrbanCode Deploy 6.2.7.3Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM UrbanCode Deploy 6.2.7.4Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM MQ 9.2Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-17638 are fixed in Eclipse-jetty-server for Linux 9.4.30Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234