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CVE-2016-9589

7.5 highEPSS 3.0%

High (7.5) in redhat jboss wildfly application server. EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow 11.0.0.Beta1.

Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to "max-headers" (default 200) * "max-header-size" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvjMavenorg.wildfly:wildfly-undertow<11.0.0.Beta111.0.0.Beta1

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