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.
References
Link Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2946 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539170 Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/issues/2648 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: eclipse

Published: 2018-10-10T20:00:00

Updated: 2021-08-18T02:06:30

Reserved: 2018-06-18T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-12541

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-10T20:29:00.380

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:52:20.177


Link: CVE-2018-12541

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