Information disclosure in Undertow

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU96900

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7885

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure sharing of resources where the ProxyProtocolReadListener reuses the same StringBuilder instance across multiple requests. As a result, different requests may share the same StringBuilder instance, potentially leading to information leakage between requests or responses. In some cases, a value from a previous request or response may be erroneously reused, which could lead to unintended data exposure.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Undertow: 2.0.0.Alpha1 - 2.3.16

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:undertow:2.0.0.Alpha1:*:*:*:*:wildfly_core:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:undertow:2.0.0.Alpha2:*:*:*:*:wildfly_core:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:undertow:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:wildfly_core:*:*

External links

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7885
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2305290

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.