CVE-2016-9589 – org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow

Package

Manager: maven
Name: org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <11.0.0.beta1

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.03086 pctl0.86265

Details

Red Hat Wildfly DoS 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.

Metadata

Created: 2022-05-13T01:38:28Z
Modified: 2023-11-02T16:05:42Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-400"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
Finding: F002
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