SB2023080810 - Denial of service in Undertow
Published: August 8, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023080810
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
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 exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3223)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources by servlets annotated with @MultipartConfig. A remote attacker can send a large multipart content to the server, consume all available memory resources and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.