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CVE-2023-36478

7.5 highEPSS 4.8%

High (7.5). EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-hpack 10.0.16, 11.0.16, 9.4.53.

Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container. In versions 11.0.0 through 11.0.15, 10.0.0 through 10.0.15, and 9.0.0 through 9.4.52, an integer overflow in `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for HTTP/2 HPACK header values to exceed their size limit. `MetaDataBuilder.java` determines if a header name or value exceeds the size limit, and throws an exception if the limit is exceeded. However, when length is very large and huffman is true, the multiplication by 4 in line 295 will overflow, and length will become negative. `(_size+length)` will now be negative, and the check on line 296 will not be triggered. Furthermore, `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for user-entered HPACK header value sizes to be negative, potentially leading to a very large buffer allocation later on when the user-entered size is multiplied by 2. This means that if a user provides a negative length value (or, more precisely, a length value which, when multiplied by the 4/3 fudge factor, is negative), and this length value is a very large positive number when multiplied by 2, then the user can cause a very large buffer to be allocated on the server. Users of HTTP/2 can be impacted by a remote denial of service attack. The issue has been fixed in versions 11.0.16, 10.0.16, and 9.4.53. There are no known workarounds.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-190, CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98rMavenorg.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-hpack>=10.0.0 <10.0.1610.0.16
GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98rMavenorg.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-hpack>=11.0.0 <11.0.1611.0.16
GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98rMavenorg.eclipse.jetty.http3:http3-qpack>=10.0.0 <10.0.1610.0.16
GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98rMavenorg.eclipse.jetty.http3:http3-qpack>=11.0.0 <11.0.1611.0.16
GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98rMavenorg.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-hpack>=9.3.0 <9.4.539.4.53

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