Resource management error in Undertow - CVE-2019-14888

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Resource management error in Undertow - CVE-2019-14888

Published: February 20, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25486
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14888
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing HTTP requests sent to HTTPS port. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Undertow
JBoss Data Grid

How to mitigate CVE-2019-14888

Install updates from vendor's website.

Undertow - update to 2.0.29
JBoss Data Grid - update to 7.3.5

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