cve-2016-9589
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-12 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity
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.
Impacted products
VendorProduct
Red Hat, Inc.wildfly
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