ghsa-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:38
Modified
2023-11-02 16:05
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Red Hat Wildfly DoS
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "11.0.0.Beta1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-9589"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-07-28T21:38:39Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-03-12T15:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj",
  "modified": "2023-11-02T16:05:42Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:38:28Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200227180917/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Red Hat Wildfly DoS"
}


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