CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9589

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-03-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat jboss wildfly application server (<= 10.1.0) • redhat jboss wildfly application server 11.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References