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CVE-2018-12545

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12545 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting Eclipse Jetty versions 9.3.x and 9.4.x, as well as related Fedora products. Attackers can exploit this by sending numerous large or small SETTINGS frames, causing excessive CPU and memory allocation. Rated 7.5 HIGH, this network-exploitable vulnerability requires no user interaction and can lead to a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:20150601:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:20150608:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:20150612:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:maintenance0:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:9.3.0:maintenance1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0508 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-serverFixed in: 9.4.12.v20180830
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-serverFixed in: 9.3.25.v20180904
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: jetty
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-java-common-jetty

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-h2f4-v4c4-6wx4high

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server

Mar 28, 2019
redhatCVE-2018-12545Moderate

jetty: large settings frames causing denial of service

Mar 20, 2019

References

bugs.eclipse.org / bugs/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/13f5241048ec0bf966a6ddd306feaf40de5b20e1f09096b9cddeddf2%40%3Ccommits.accumulo.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/70744fe4faba8e2fa7e50a7fc794dd03cb28dad8b21e08ee59bb1606%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/febc94ffec9275dcda64633e0276a1400cd318e571009e4cda9b7a79%40%3Cnotifications.accumulo.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CIS4LALKZNLF5X5IGNGRSKERG7FY4QG6
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
PatchThird Party Advisory