Denial of service in Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU87509

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [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-2024-23672

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can keep WebSocket connections open for a long time to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

JBoss Web Server: 5.1.0 - 5.7.8

jws5-tomcat (Red Hat package): before 9.0.87-3.redhat_00003.1.el7jws

jws5 (Red Hat package): before mod_cluster-1.4.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7jws

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:jboss_web_server:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:jboss_web_server:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:jboss_web_server:5.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:jws5-tomcat_redhat_package:*:*:*:*:*:red_hat_enterprise_linux:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:jws5_redhat_package:*:*:*:*:*:red_hat_enterprise_linux:*:*

External links

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1913
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1914

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.