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GHSA-vgg8-72f2-qm23

GitHub Security Advisory

Critical severity vulnerability that affects org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server

✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.2.x and older, 9.3.x, transfer-encoding chunks are handled poorly. The chunk length parsing was vulnerable to an integer overflow. Thus a large chunk size could be interpreted as a smaller chunk size and content sent as chunk body could be interpreted as a pipelined request. If Jetty was deployed behind an intermediary that imposed some authorization and that intermediary allowed arbitrarily large chunks to be passed on unchanged, then this flaw could be used to bypass the authorization imposed by the intermediary as the fake pipelined request would not be interpreted by the intermediary as a request.

Affected Packages

Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 9.2.25.v20180606)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Affected versions: 9.3.0 (fixed in 9.3.24.v20180605)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-vgg8-72f2-qm23
Published
October 19, 2018 4:15 PM
Last Modified
June 10, 2021 8:19 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 25, 2025 6:29 AM

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