CVE-2016-9589

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9589
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9589.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9589
Aliases
Downstream
RHSA (8)
Published
2018-03-12T15:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:48:05Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wildfly/wildfly

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
c3332cec0c9bc5dc57899c2ae7ba26dd0c627686
Introduced
1299aae21ee19d2dc2f174b09b3d74e4faec7f9b
Last Affected
1299aae21ee19d2dc2f174b09b3d74e4faec7f9b
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "10.1.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:11.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "11.0.0-alpha1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "11.0.0-alpha1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

10.*
10.0.0.Alpha1
10.0.0.Alpha2
10.0.0.Alpha3
10.0.0.Alpha4
10.0.0.Alpha5
10.0.0.Alpha6
10.0.0.Beta1
10.0.0.Beta2
10.0.0.CR1
10.0.0.CR2
10.0.0.CR3
10.0.0.CR4
10.0.0.CR5
10.0.0.Final
10.1.0.CR1
10.1.0.Final
11.*
11.0.0-alpha1
11.0.0.Alpha1
7.*
7.0.0.Alpha1
7.0.0.Alpha1-final
7.0.0.Beta1-prerelease
7.0.0.Beta2
7.0.0.Beta2-prerelease
7.0.0.Beta3
7.0.0.CR1
7.0.0.Final
7.0.0.Final-prerelease
7.0.0.Final-prerelease2
7.0.0.Final-prerelease3
7.1.0.Alpha1
7.1.0.Beta1
7.1.0.CR1
7.1.0.Final
7.1.0.Final-prerelease
7.1.0.Final-prerelease2
7.1.1.Final
7.1.2-prerelease
7.1.2.Final
7.2.0.Final
7.2.0.Final-prerelease1
8.*
8.0.0.Alpha1
8.0.0.Alpha2
8.0.0.Alpha3
8.0.0.Alpha4
8.0.0.Beta1
8.0.0.CR1
8.0.0.Final
8.1.0.CR1
8.1.0.CR2
9.*
9.0.0.Beta1
9.0.0.Beta2
9.0.0.CR1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9589.json"