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CVE-2016-9589: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

May 13, 2022 (updated November 2, 2023)

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.

References

  • rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html
  • rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html
  • rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html
  • rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html
  • rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
  • bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
  • web.archive.org/web/20200227180917/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060/

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 11.0.0.beta1

Fixed versions

  • 11.0.0.Beta1

Solution

Upgrade to version 11.0.0.Beta1 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

maven/org.wildfly/wildfly-undertow/CVE-2016-9589.yml

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