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Vulnerability · Published Apr 1, 2021 · Assigned by eclipse

CVE-2021-28165

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Eclipse Jetty from The Eclipse Foundation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 53.9% (higher than 99.0% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)53.9%top 1.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

In Eclipse Jetty 7.2.2 to 9.4.38, 10.0.0.alpha0 to 10.0.1, and 11.0.0.alpha0 to 11.0.1, CPU usage can reach 100% upon receiving a large invalid TLS frame.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12jetty99.4.39-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28165
Debian:13jetty99.4.39-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28165
Debian:14jetty99.4.39-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28165
Mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server9.4.39GHSA-26vr-8j45-3r4w
Mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server10.0.2GHSA-26vr-8j45-3r4w
Mavenorg.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server11.0.2GHSA-26vr-8j45-3r4w
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSequinox-bundlesno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-28165

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty 7.2.2 – before unspecifiedunspecified – through 9.4.3810.0.0.alpha0 – before unspecifiedunspecified – through 10.0.111.0.0.alpha0 – before unspecifiedunspecified – through 11.0.1

Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-551, CWE-755 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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