GHSA-9299-c6m4-mjhcHighCVSS 7.5

Eclipse Jetty: DoS attack triggering OutOfMemory with 100-Continue requests

Published
July 22, 2026
Last Modified
July 22, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

The original report:

Server handling of 100-Continue requests can lead to memory leak that can be abused to cause a Denial of Service state.

After investigation, turns out that every request that has a body, but reading the body may end up in reading 0 bytes, leaks a buffer. This is particularly the case for 100-Continue, but any request where the network is slow can leak.

Affected Versions

  • Jetty 11.0.0-11.0.22 (EOL)
  • Jetty 10.0.0-10.0.22 (EOL)

Patched Versions

  • Jetty 11.0.23
  • Jetty 10.0.23

Patches

https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/12156

Workarounds

No workarounds.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server:>= 10.0.7, < 10.0.23
  • maven/org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server:>= 11.0.7, < 11.0.23

🔗 References (8)