Severity
9.4CRITICAL
EPSS
30.9%
top 3.26%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateApr 15
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 …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:LExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.5