CVE-2016-9589

N/A
Published: March 12, 2018 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorJBoss Wildfly Application Server

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (13)

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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