SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-1973

CVE-2023-1973 — A flaw was found in Undertow package

A flaw was found in Undertow package. Using the FormAuthenticationMechanism, a malicious user could trigger a Denial of Service by sending crafted requests, leading the server to an OutofMemory error, exhausting the server's memory.

CVSS
7.5 HIGH
EPSS
0.73% (top 27.60%)
CWE
CWE-20
Published
2024-11-07T10:01:57.995Z
Last modified
2024-11-07T14:06:43.345Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

A flaw was found in Undertow package. Using the FormAuthenticationMechanism, a malicious user could trigger a Denial of Service by sending crafted requests, leading the server to an OutofMemory error, exhausting the server's memory.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 80:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 90:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 70:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 80:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 90:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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