CVE-2023-1973

Undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Nov 7, 2024
Updated: Nov 7, 2024
Reserved: Apr 10, 2023

Description

A flaw was found in Undertow package. Using the FormAuthenticationMechanism, a malicious user could trigger a Denial of Service by sending crafted requests, leading the server to an OutofMemory error, exhausting the server's memory.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7Red Hat
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap and laterNot affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9Red Hat	0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap and laterNot affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7Red Hat	0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap and laterNot affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8Red Hat
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap and laterNot affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9Red Hat	0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap and laterNot affected

References

RHSA-2024:1674vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:1675vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:1676vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:1677vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:2763vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:2764vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1973vdb-entry
RHBZ#2185662issue-tracking

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