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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2018-12541)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
422319	SCA: security update for io.vertx:vertx-core (GHSA-45xm-v8gq-7jqx)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
422319	SCA: security update for io.vertx:vertx-core (GHSA-45xm-v8gq-7jqx)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium

Detections

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CVE-2018-12541

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium