CVE-2018-12541

CVSS V2 Medium 4 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the WebSocket HTTP upgrade implementation buffers the full http request before doing the handshake, holding the entire request body in memory. There should be a reasonnable limit (8192 bytes) above which the WebSocket gets an HTTP response with the 413 status code and the connection gets closed.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-12541
  • Assigner
  • emo@eclipse.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-10-10T20:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-04-19T16:13:03
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:vert.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.0.0 3.5.4
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/issues/2648 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539170 Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2946 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re5ddabee26fbcadc7254d03a5a073d64080a9389adc9e452529664ed@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r344235b1aea2f7fa2381495df1d77d02b595e3d7e4626e701f7c1062@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r362835e6c7f34324ed24e318b363fcdd20cea91d0cea0b2e1164f73e@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r11789cd6d67ecca2d6f6bbb11e34495e68ee99287b6c59edf5b1a09c@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3da899890536af744dec897fbc561fd9810ac45e79a16164b53c31b2@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8db0431ecf93f2dd2128db5ddca897b33ba883b7f126648d6a9e4c47@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbdc279ecdb7ac496a03befb05a53605c4ce2b67e14f8f4df4cfa1203@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1af71105539fe01fcecb92d2ecd8eea56c515fb1c80ecab4df424553@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79789a0afb184abd13a2c07016e6e7ab8e64331f332b630bf82a2eed@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/reb3cc4f3e10264896a541813c0030ec9d9466ba9b722fe5d4adc91cd@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r01123837ffbfdf5809e0a4ac354ad546e4ca8f18df89ee5a10eeb81b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r98dc06e2b1c498d0e9eb5038d8e1aefd24e411e50522e7082dd9e0b7@%3Ccommits.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12541
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12541
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 15:41:16 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 13:11:32 security@eclipse.org emo@eclipse.org CVE Assigner updated
2022-12-03 13:11:32 2018-10-10T20:29Z 2018-10-10T20:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 13:11:32 2022-04-19T16:13:03 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 13:11:32 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated