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MEDIUM5.3

GHSA-qw69-rqj8-6qw8

OutOfMemoryError for large multipart without filename in Eclipse Jetty

Quick fix

GHSA-qw69-rqj8-6qw8 — org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

# pom.xml: bump <version>9.4.51.v20230217</version> for org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server

Details

### Impact Servlets with multipart support (e.g. annotated with `@MultipartConfig`) that call `HttpServletRequest.getParameter()` or `HttpServletRequest.getParts()` may cause `OutOfMemoryError` when the client sends a multipart request with a part that has a name but no filename and a very large content.

This happens even with the default settings of `fileSizeThreshold=0` which should stream the whole part content to disk.

An attacker client may send a large multipart request and cause the server to throw `OutOfMemoryError`. However, the server may be able to recover after the `OutOfMemoryError` and continue its service -- although it may take some time.

A very large number of parts may cause the same problem.

### Patches Patched in Jetty versions

* 9.4.51.v20230217 - via PR #9345 * 10.0.14 - via PR #9344 * 11.0.14 - via PR #9344

### Workarounds Multipart parameter `maxRequestSize` must be set to a non-negative value, so the whole multipart content is limited (although still read into memory). Limiting multipart parameter `maxFileSize` won't be enough because an attacker can send a large number of parts that summed up will cause memory issues.

### References * https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/9076 * https://github.com/jakartaee/servlet/blob/6.0.0/spec/src/main/asciidoc/servlet-spec-body.adoc#32-file-upload

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Affected packages

Maven/org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 9.4.51.v20230217
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>9.4.51.v20230217</version> for org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Maven/org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Introduced in: 10.0.0Fixed in: 10.0.14
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>10.0.14</version> for org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Maven/org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server
Introduced in: 11.0.0Fixed in: 11.0.14
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>11.0.14</version> for org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server

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