CVE-2016-9589

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9589
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-03-12T15:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:20:37
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 10.1.0
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:11.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
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
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9589
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:13:31 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 03:16:52 2018-03-12T15:29Z 2018-03-12T15:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 03:16:52 2019-10-09T23:20:37 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 03:16:52 Modified Vulnerability Status updated