CVE-2016-9589

Aliases:GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 12 Mar 2018, 15:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 02:59

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.19% LOW
2% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Mar 2018, 15:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 02:59
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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 Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.19%• Percentile: 85%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Affected Systems

  • org.wildfly•wildfly-undertow

    < 11.0.0.Beta1

  • red hat, inc.•wildfly

    11.0.0.Beta1

  • redhat•jboss_wildfly_application_server

    ≤ 10.1.0 | 11.0.0:alpha1

References (16)