CVE-2016-9589

published 2018-03-12

CVE-2016-9589: 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…

Priority P3 39 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

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.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
red_hat_inc	wildfly	—	—
redhat	jboss_wildfly_application_server	<= 10.1.0	—
redhat	jboss_wildfly_application_server	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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