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 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 v3.0 7.5 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

7.5^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

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

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

5.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782	Issue Tracking
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458	Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456	Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455	Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454	Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873	Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872	Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html	Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html	Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html	Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html	Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html	Vendor Advisory

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:11.0.0:alpha1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server::::::::

Information

Published : 2018-03-12 08:29

Updated : 2019-10-09 16:20

NVD link : CVE-2016-9589

Mitre link : CVE-2016-9589

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Products Affected

redhat

jboss_wildfly_application_server

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