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CVE-2016-9589
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-12T15:29:00.273 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:56:17.913

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.

Affected products

redhat — jboss_wildfly_application_server

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