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GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj Red Hat Wildfly DoS

HIGH Published 2022-05-13 Modified 2023-11-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2016-9589
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2023-07-28

Affected packages

• Maven org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow: < 11.0.0.Beta1 → fixed in 11.0.0.Beta1

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2016-9589 Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References