Resource exhaustion in Jetty - CVE-2025-1948

 

Resource exhaustion in Jetty - CVE-2025-1948

Published: May 9, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU108836
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1948
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Eclipse
Affected software:
Jetty

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can force the server to allocate a large amount of resources and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2025-1948

Install updates from vendor's website.

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