undertow-io/undertow · Security
Undertow Denial of Service vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-97cq-f4jm-mv8h
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-1973
- Severity
- medium
- 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
- CVSS v4
- 6.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
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.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1973 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1674 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1675 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1676 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1677 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2763 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1973 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185662 ↗
- https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/commit/0410f3c4d9b39b754a2203a29834cac51da11258 ↗
- https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/commit/b289b18bc0ba40c134698a430c70ca1835c51d78 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97cq-f4jm-mv8h ↗