This happens because the JDK Inflater is allocated for decompressing the request, but it is not released because the release mechanism is tied to the compressed response.
In this case, since the response is not compressed, the release mechanism does not trigger, causing the leak.
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GHSA-xxh7-fcf3-rj7f | The Eclipse Jetty Server Artifact has a Gzip request memory leak |
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| Title | org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server: Eclipse Jetty: Denial of Service due to unreleased JDK Inflater from compressed HTTP requests | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-772 | |
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| Description | In Eclipse Jetty, versions 12.0.0-12.0.31 and 12.1.0-12.0.5, class GzipHandler exposes a vulnerability when a compressed HTTP request, with Content-Encoding: gzip, is processed and the corresponding response is not compressed. This happens because the JDK Inflater is allocated for decompressing the request, but it is not released because the release mechanism is tied to the compressed response. In this case, since the response is not compressed, the release mechanism does not trigger, causing the leak. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 CWE-401 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: eclipse
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-05T14:46:16.289Z
Reserved: 2026-01-29T10:58:31.963Z
Link: CVE-2026-1605
Updated: 2026-03-05T14:46:13.125Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-03-05T10:15:56.890
Modified: 2026-03-05T19:38:33.877
Link: CVE-2026-1605
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