Eclipse Vert.x up to 3.5.3 HTTP Response memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Eclipse Vert.x up to 3.5.3. It has been declared as problematic. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation as part of HTTP Response leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-12541. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Eclipse Vert.x up to 3.5.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation as part of a HTTP Response leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the WebSocket HTTP upgrade implementation buffers the full http request before doing the handshake, holding the entire request body in memory. There should be a reasonnable limit (8192 bytes) above which the WebSocket gets an HTTP response with the 413 status code and the connection gets closed.

The bug was discovered 10/02/2018. The weakness was disclosed 10/10/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at bugs.eclipse.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-12541 since 06/18/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

06/18/2018 🔍
10/02/2018 +106 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: RHSA-2018:2946
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-12541 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-12541
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-125222
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/11/2018 11:39
Updated: 05/25/2023 08:20
Changes: 10/11/2018 11:39 (57), 04/01/2020 16:33 (2), 05/25/2023 08:20 (3)
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