Vulnerability CVE-2016-9589


Published: 2018-03-12

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Jboss wildfly application server 

 References:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782

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