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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2018-12541 EUVD-2018-0495GHSA-45xm-v8gq-7jqx

Excessive memory allocation

Published Oct 10, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by eclipse

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Vert.x 3.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – ≤ 3.5.3 unspecified

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.vertx:vertx-core >= 3.0.0, < 3.5.4 3.5.4 GHSA-45xm-v8gq-7jqx

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