CVE-2016-9589
"Red Hat Wildfly HTTP Header Cache Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service"
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.
INFO
Published Date :
March 12, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 3:01 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 09, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-400 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 11, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html No Types Assigned http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html No Types Assigned http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html No Types Assigned http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html No Types Assigned http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456 Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872 Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454 Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455 Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html No Types Assigned http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873 Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458 Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782 Issue Tracking Added CWE CWE-400 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 10.1.0 *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:11.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Mar. 14, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html [No Types Assigned]
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2016-9589 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2016-9589
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
1.43 }} 0.37%
score
0.86281
percentile