CVE-2016-9589

HIGH

Redhat Jboss Wildfly Application Server < 10.1.0 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (2)

nomisec STUB
by dawetmaster · poc
https://github.com/dawetmaster/CVE-2016-9589-undertow-vulnerable
nomisec STUB
by andikahilmy · poc
https://github.com/andikahilmy/CVE-2016-9589-undertow-vulnerable

References (13)

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0219
EPSS Percentile 84.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (3)
org.wildfly/wildfly-undertow 0 - 11.0.0.Beta1Maven
redhat/jboss_wildfly_application_server 11.0.0 alpha1
redhat/jboss_wildfly_application_server < 10.1.0
Published Mar 12, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026