ghsa-m394-8rww-3jr7
Vulnerability from github
Published
2021-03-10 03:46
Modified
2021-10-21 14:14
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
DOS vulnerability for Quoted Quality CSV headers
Details

Impact

When Jetty handles a request containing request headers with a large number of “quality” (i.e. q) parameters (such as what are seen on the Accept, Accept-Encoding, and Accept-Language request headers), the server may enter a denial of service (DoS) state due to high CPU usage while sorting the list of values based on their quality values. A single request can easily consume minutes of CPU time before it is even dispatched to the application.

The only features within Jetty that can trigger this behavior are:

  • Default Error Handling - the Accept request header with the QuotedQualityCSV is used to determine what kind of content to send back to the client (html, text, json, xml, etc)
  • StatisticsServlet - uses the Accept request header with the QuotedQualityCSV to determine what kind of content to send back to the client (xml, json, text, html, etc)
  • HttpServletRequest.getLocale() - uses the Accept-Language request header with the QuotedQualityCSV to determine which “preferred” language is returned on this call.
  • HttpservletRequest.getLocales() - is similar to the above, but returns an ordered list of locales based on the quality values on the Accept-Language request header.
  • DefaultServlet - uses the Accept-Encoding request header with the QuotedQualityCSV to determine which kind of pre-compressed content should be sent back for static content (content that is not matched against a url-pattern in your web app)

Versions

QuotedQualityCSV was introduced to Jetty 9.3.9.v20160517 and the bug that introduced the vulnerability was in 9.4.6.v20170531.

Currently, known vulnerable versions include:

  • 9.4.6.v20170531 thru to 9.4.36.v20210114
  • 10.0.0
  • 11.0.0

Workarounds

Quality ordered values are used infrequently by jetty so they can be avoided by:

  • Do not use the default error page/handler.
  • Do not deploy the StatisticsServlet exposed to the network
  • Do not call getLocale API
  • Do not enable precompressed static content in the DefaultServlet

Patches

All patches are available for download from the Eclipse Jetty website at https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.php - 9.4.37.v20210219 and greater - 10.0.1 and greater - 11.0.1 and greater

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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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  "summary": "DOS vulnerability for Quoted Quality CSV headers"
}


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