SB2020012312 - Denial of service in Red Hat Undertow
Published: January 23, 2020 Updated: February 20, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020012312
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 management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14888)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing HTTP requests sent to HTTPS port. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.