CVE-2021-28165

jetty: Resource exhaustion when receiving an invalid large TLS frame

Published Apr 1, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 53.9% KEV · Not listed
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.

Analysis

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-26vr-8j45-3r4w Jetty vulnerable to incorrect handling of invalid large TLS frame, exhausting CPU resources
References
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28165 cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210611-0006/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28165 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4949 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.11986}

epss

{'score': 0.1227}

Weaknesses
  • CWE-400

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

  • CWE-551

    Incorrect Behavior Order: Authorization Before Parsing and Canonicalization

  • CWE-755

    Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
eclipse
Published
Updated
Aug 27, 2025, 8:37 PM
Reserved
Mar 12, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 1, 2021, 3:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:45 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Apr 1, 2021, 12:00 AM