CVE-2018-12545: Eclipse Jetty

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Eclipse Jetty: version 9.3.0 only; version 9.3.1 only; version 9.3.2 only; version 9.3.3 only; version 9.3.4 only; version 9.3.5 only; …
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 28 only

Published 2019-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.