Undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.3%
exploitation probability
1.3%top 31% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in Undertow package. Using the FormAuthenticationMechanism, a malicious user could trigger a Denial of Service by sending crafted requests, leading the server to an OutofMemory error, exhausting the server's memory.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1674https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1675https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1676https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1677https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2763https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1973https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185662