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GHSA-wgmr-mf83-7x4j

GitHub Security Advisory

Jetty vulnerable to Invalid HTTP/2 requests that can lead to denial of service

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Description
Invalid HTTP/2 requests (for example, invalid URIs) are incorrectly handled by writing a blocking error response directly from the selector thread.
If the client manages to exhaust the HTTP/2 flow control window, or TCP congest the connection, the selector thread will be blocked trying to write the error response.
If this is repeated for all the selector threads, the server becomes unresponsive, causing the denial of service.

### Impact
A malicious client may render the server unresponsive.

### Patches
The fix is available in Jetty versions 9.4.47. 10.0.10, 11.0.10.

### Workarounds
No workaround available within Jetty itself.
One possible workaround is to filter the requests before sending them to Jetty (for example in a proxy)

### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Email us at [email protected].

Affected Packages

Maven org.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-server
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 9.4.47)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-server
Affected versions: 10.0.0 (fixed in 10.0.10)
Maven org.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-server
Affected versions: 11.0.0 (fixed in 11.0.10)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-wgmr-mf83-7x4j
Published
July 7, 2022 8:55 PM
Last Modified
July 19, 2022 7:42 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-server
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 25, 2025 6:29 AM

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