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undertow-io/undertow · Security

Undertow OutOfMemory when parsing form data encoding with application/x-www-form-urlencoded

GHSA ID
GHSA-6h4f-pj3g-q8fq
CVE ID
CVE-2024-3884
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in Undertow that can cause remote denial of service attacks. When the server uses the FormEncodedDataDefinition.doParse(StreamSourceChannel) method to parse large form data encoding with application/x-www-form-urlencoded, the method will cause an OutOfMemory issue. This flaw allows unauthorized users to cause a remote denial of service (DoS) attack.

CWEs

  • CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

References

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