CVE-2018-12545
In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames. The vulnerability is due to the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings.
Timeline
ID reserved
By eclipse
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
The Eclipse Foundation · Eclipse Jetty
- affected 9.3.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 9.4.12
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-serverGHSA-h2f4-v4c4-6wx4 (opens in a new tab)
References
References9
- [infra-devnull] 20190402 [GitHub] [accumulo] milleruntime opened pull request #1072: Upgrade jetty to fix CVE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [accumulo-notifications] 20190402 [GitHub] [accumulo] milleruntime opened a new pull request #1072: Upgrade jetty to fix CVE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [accumulo-commits] 20190404 [accumulo] branch master updated: Update jetty to latest (CVE-2018-12545) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [pulsar-commits] 20190416 [GitHub] [pulsar] one70six opened a new issue #4057: Security Vulnerabilities - Black Duck Scan - Pulsar v.2.3.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-d9f867cb65 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [druid-commits] 20191115 [GitHub] [incubator-druid] ccaominh opened a new pull request #8878: Address security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538096 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0383 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-h2f4-v4c4-6wx4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-12545)Record last updated .