Resource exhaustion in Undertow - CVE-2023-1973

Vulnerability identifier: #VU88156

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-2023-1973

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to server does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the server to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Undertow
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
openEuler
eap7-jboss-annotations (Red Hat package)
eap7-jgroups-kubernetes (Red Hat package)
eap7-insights-java-client (Red Hat package)
eap7-jboss-cert-helper (Red Hat package)
eap7-jberet (Red Hat package)
undertow-javadoc
undertow
eap7-elytron-web (Red Hat package)
eap7-jboss-server-migration (Red Hat package)
eap7-wildfly-elytron (Red Hat package)
eap7-undertow (Red Hat package)
eap8-undertow (Red Hat package)
eap7-activemq-artemis (Red Hat package)
eap7-hal-console (Red Hat package)
eap7-apache-cxf (Red Hat package)
eap7-jboss-xnio-base (Red Hat package)
eap7-jboss-remoting (Red Hat package)
eap7-hibernate (Red Hat package)
eap7-lucene-solr (Red Hat package)
eap7-eclipse-jgit (Red Hat package)
eap7-wildfly (Red Hat package)
eap7-infinispan (Red Hat package)

Install updates from vendor's website.

Undertow - addressed in versions 2.2.31, 2.3.12
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data - addressed in versions 4.8.9, 5.1.3
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - addressed in versions 7.4.16, 8.0
eap7-jboss-annotations (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions api_1.3_spec-2.0.1-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, api_1.3_spec-2.0.1-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, api_1.3_spec-2.0.1-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-jgroups-kubernetes (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.0.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 1.0.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 1.0.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-insights-java-client (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-jboss-cert-helper (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 1.1.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-jberet (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.3.9-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 1.3.9-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 1.3.9-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
undertow-javadoc - update to 1.4.0-7
undertow - update to 1.4.0-7
eap7-elytron-web (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.9.4-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 1.9.4-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 1.9.4-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-jboss-server-migration (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.10.0-35.Final_redhat_00034.1.el7eap, 1.10.0-35.Final_redhat_00034.1.el8eap, 1.10.0-35.Final_redhat_00034.1.el9eap
eap7-wildfly-elytron (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.15.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 1.15.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 1.15.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-undertow (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap8-undertow (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-activemq-artemis (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.16.0-18.redhat_00052.1.el7eap, 2.16.0-18.redhat_00052.1.el8eap, 2.16.0-18.redhat_00052.1.el9eap
eap7-hal-console (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.3.21-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 3.3.21-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 3.3.21-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-apache-cxf (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.4.10-2.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 3.4.10-2.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 3.4.10-2.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-jboss-xnio-base (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.8.12-1.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 3.8.12-1.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 3.8.12-1.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-jboss-remoting (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.0.27-4.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 5.0.27-4.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 5.0.27-4.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-hibernate (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.3.36-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 5.3.36-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 5.3.36-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-lucene-solr (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.5.5-6.redhat_2.1.el7eap, 5.5.5-6.redhat_2.1.el8eap, 5.5.5-6.redhat_2.1.el9eap
eap7-eclipse-jgit (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.13.3.202401111512-1.r_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 5.13.3.202401111512-1.r_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 5.13.3.202401111512-1.r_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
eap7-wildfly (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 7.4.16-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap, 7.4.16-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eap, 7.4.16-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el9eap
eap7-infinispan (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 11.0.18-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 11.0.18-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 11.0.18-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185662

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Undertow
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 7
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform update for undertow
• openEuler update for undertow
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog