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.

Score
CVSS 3.0 7.5 High
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2018-03-12
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

References

 
 
© AVABIS GmbH privacypolicy about