Description
Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to "max-headers" (default 200) * "max-header-size" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.
Published: 2018-03-12
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 2.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-4678 Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to "max-headers" (default 200) * "max-header-size" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj Red Hat Wildfly DoS
History

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.1::el7

Subscriptions

Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Jboss Single Sign On Jboss Wildfly Application Server Red Hat Single Sign On
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:02.944Z

Reserved: 2016-11-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9589

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-12T15:29:00.273

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:01:27.900

Link: CVE-2016-9589

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9589 - Bugzilla

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