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CVE-2016-9589

CVE-2016-9589 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Reported by redhat · Published March 12, 2018

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.

Risk Scores

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

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat, Inc.wildfly11.0.0.Beta1
Red Hat, Inc.wildfly11.0.0.Beta1, 11.0.0.Beta1, *
Mavenorg.wildfly:wildfly-undertow0, 0, 0
Mavenorg.wildfly:wildfly-parent0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Mar 12, 2018 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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