Resource exhaustion in Quarkus - CVE-2024-1726
Published: April 25, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU89005
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1726
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Quarkus
Quarkus
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-1726
Install updates from vendor's website.