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Vulnerability details: VCID-3e3k-91cx-aaab
Vulnerability ID VCID-3e3k-91cx-aaab
Aliases CVE-2016-9589
GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html
generic_textual HIGH http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html
generic_textual HIGH http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html
generic_textual HIGH http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html
generic_textual HIGH http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html
cvssv3.1 5.9 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html
generic_textual MODERATE http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0830
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0831
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0832
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0834
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0876
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
rhas Important https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
cvssv3 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-9589.json
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
cvssv3.1 4.3 https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
cvssv3 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://web.archive.org/web/20200227180917/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060
generic_textual HIGH https://web.archive.org/web/20200227180917/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060
Reference id Reference type URL
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
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-9589.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9589
https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227180917/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227180917/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060
1404782 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:11.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:11.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-9589 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
RHSA-2017:0830 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0830
RHSA-2017:0831 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0831
RHSA-2017:0832 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0832
RHSA-2017:0834 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0834
RHSA-2017:0872 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872
RHSA-2017:0873 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873
RHSA-2017:0876 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0876
RHSA-2017:3454 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
RHSA-2017:3455 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
RHSA-2017:3456 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
RHSA-2017:3458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-9589.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://web.archive.org/web/20200227180917/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.84525
EPSS Score 0.01059
Published At Nov. 1, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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