Resource exhaustion in Quarkus - CVE-2024-1726

 

Resource exhaustion in Quarkus - CVE-2024-1726

Published: April 25, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU89005
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-2024-1726
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 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.


Affected software

Quarkus
Red Hat build of Quarkus
IBM Event Endpoint Management

How to mitigate CVE-2024-1726

Install updates from vendor's website.

Quarkus - update to 3.9.0
Red Hat build of Quarkus - update to 3.2.11
IBM Event Endpoint Management - update to 11.2.1

External References

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