SB2024042553 - Resource exhaustion in Quarkus



SB2024042553 - Resource exhaustion in Quarkus

Published: April 25, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024042553
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1726)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

CVSSv4: 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/U:Green


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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.