CVE-2023-1973
Undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7
- unaffected 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap – < *
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenio.undertow:undertow-coreGHSA-97cq-f4jm-mv8h (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- RHSA-2024:1674 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:1675 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:1676 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:1677 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:2763 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:2764 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1973 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2185662 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-97cq-f4jm-mv8h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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