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CVE-2016-9589

Published: Mar 12, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-400
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
3.1%
Top 13.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

wildflyRed Hat, Inc.
Mixed
Cloud & SaaS / cloud-platform
org.wildfly:wildfly-undertowMavenOSS Libraries
jboss wildfly application serverredhat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
red hat, inc.commercialUSCloud & SaaSaka redhat, keycloak, 389-ds-base, ceph
mavenpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries
redhatcommercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html
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Timeline

Published
Mar 12, 2018
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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