Security Bulletin
Summary
In Eclipse Jetty, versions 9.4.27.v20200227 to 9.4.29.v20200521, in case of too large response headers, Jetty throws an exception to produce an HTTP 431 error. When this happens, the ByteBuffer containing the HTTP response headers is released back to the ByteBufferPool twice. Because of this double release, two threads can acquire the same ByteBuffer from the pool and while thread1 is about to use the ByteBuffer to write response1 data, thread2 fills the ByteBuffer with other data. Thread1 then proceeds to write the buffer that now contains different data. This results in client1, which issued request1 seeing data from another request or response which could contain sensitive data belonging to client2 (HTTP session ids, authentication credentials, etc.).
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-17638
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty, as bundled in Jenkins, could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an issue with corrupt HTTP response buffer being sent to different clients. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 9.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185436 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| UCD - IBM UrbanCode Deploy | 6.2.7.4 |
| UCD - IBM UrbanCode Deploy | 6.2.7.3 |
| UCD - IBM UrbanCode Deploy | 7.0.4.0 |
| UCD - IBM UrbanCode Deploy | 7.0.3.0 |
| UCD - IBM UrbanCode Deploy | All |
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to 6.2.7.9, 7.0.5.4, 7.1.1.0 or later.
- https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/doSelectFixes?options.selectedFixes=6.2.7.9-IBM-UrbanCode-Deploy&continue=1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/doSelectFixes?options.selectedFixes=7.0.5.4-IBM-UrbanCode-Deploy&continue=1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/doSelectFixes?options.selectedFixes=7.1.1.0.ifix01-IBM-UrbanCode-Deploy&continue=1
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
25 Sep 2020: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
18 November 2020
UID
ibm16370095