SB2023112940 - Denial of service in Wildfly Core
Published: November 29, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023112940
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3171)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in EAP-7 during deserialization of certain classes, which permits instantiation of HashMap and HashTable with no checks on resources consumed. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests using these classes to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.