Memory leak in Vert.x - CVE-2024-1023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU88189

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-2024-1023

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak when using Netty FastThreadLocal data structures. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.

Vert.x
Cryostat
Red Hat build of Quarkus
Red Hat Integration - Service Registry
Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Application Suite - IBM Asset Data Dictionary Component
IBM Event Endpoint Management
Business Automation Insights
AMQ Streams
Event Streams

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vert.x - addressed in versions 4.4.7, 4.5.2
Red Hat build of Quarkus - update to 3.2.11
IBM Application Suite - IBM Asset Data Dictionary Component - update to 1.1.7
Red Hat Integration - Service Registry - update to 2.5.11
AMQ Streams - update to 2.7.0
Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus - update to 3.2.11
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications - update to 6.2.3
IBM Event Endpoint Management - update to 11.2.1
Event Streams - update to 11.4.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.3-IF035, 21.0.3.32, 23.0.2.4, 24.0.0-IF001
Business Automation Insights - update to 23.0.2.0.4

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260840
• https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/issues/5078
• https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/pull/5080
• https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/pull/5082

• Denial of service in Eclipse Vert.x
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.2
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Insights
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat build of Cryostat 2 on RHEL 8
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Asset Data Dictionary Component
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Integration - Service Registry 2.5
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus 3.2
• Multiple vulnerabilities in AMQ Streams 2.7
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6.2
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Event Endpoint Management
• Memory leak in IBM Event Streams
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation