CVE-2018-12545

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.051 · 92 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.12% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

50 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames. The vulnerability is due to the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-770USprimaryCWE-20USCWE-400USCWE-400USCWE-400US

affected products (50)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jetty9.3.0 → unspecifiedenisa_euvdEU
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Jettyunspecified → 9.4.12enisa_euvdEU
Eclipse Foundation Jetty9.3.0 → 9.3.25.v20180904fstec_bduRU
Eclipse Foundation Jetty9.4.0 → 9.4.12.v20180830fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 28fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Retail Xstore Point of Service≤ 16.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Retail Xstore Point of Service≤ 17.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Retail Xstore Point of Service≤ 7.1fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Retail Xstore Point of Service≤ 15.0fstec_bduRU
eclipse jetty= 9.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.15nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.16nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.17nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jetty= 9.3.18nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-h2f4-v4c4-6wx4Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server2019-03-28ghsa · osvUS
In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames. The vulnerability is due to the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-03-27modified 2026-06-17

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references (41)

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