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Jenkins Advisory 2021-04-20: CVE-2021-28165: Denial of service vulnerability in bundled Jetty

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Jenkins Advisory 2021-04-20: CVE-2021-28165: Denial of service vulnerability in bundled Jetty

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/01/2021
Created
12/08/2021
Added
12/02/2021
Modified
07/12/2022

Description

In Eclipse Jetty 7.2.2 to 9.4.38, 10.0.0.alpha0 to 10.0.1, and 11.0.0.alpha0 to 11.0.1, CPU usage can reach 100% upon receiving a large invalid TLS frame.

Solution(s)

  • jenkins-lts-upgrade-2_277_3
  • jenkins-upgrade-2_286

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