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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-io

CVE-2021-28165

  • org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-io
Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

In Eclipse Jetty from 7.2.2.v20101205 to 9.4.38.v20210224, 10.0.X before 10.0.2 and 11.0.X before 11.0.2, CPU usage can reach 100% upon receiving a large invalid TLS frame.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published