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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1wNHhnLWNwcjktdnd2as4AARm2

Red Hat Wildfly DoS

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: about 2 years ago
Updated: 6 months ago


CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj, CVE-2016-9589
References: Blast Radius: 15.9

Affected Packages

maven:org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow
Dependent packages: 96
Dependent repositories: 131
Downloads:
Affected Version Ranges: < 11.0.0.Beta1
Fixed in: 11.0.0.Beta1
All affected versions:
All unaffected versions: