Resource exhaustion in Quarkus



Published: 2024-04-25
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-1726
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		Quarkus
Server applications / Frameworks for developing and running applications

Vendor

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU89005

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1726

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to security checks in the RESTEasy Reactive implementation for some JAX-RS endpoints being performed after serialization, more processing resources are consumed while the HTTP request is checked. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion via specially crafted HTTP requests and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Quarkus: before 3.9.0

External links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265158


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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