CVE-2023-1973highCWE-20

CVE-2023-1973: high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

Undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.3%
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 9
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