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WildFly Application Server Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2016-9589 - Vulnerability Database
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WildFly Application Server Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2016-9589

High
Reference: CVE-2016-9589
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
Title: WildFly Application Server Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability
Overview:

Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage up to quotmax-headersquot (default 200) quotmax-header-sizequot (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.