SB2024040460 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Undertow 

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SB2024040460 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Undertow

Published: April 4, 2024 Updated: June 18, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024040460
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1973)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to server does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the server to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4639)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of cookies with certain value-delimiting characters in incoming requests. A remote attacker can construct a cookie value to exfiltrate HttpOnly cookie values or spoof arbitrary additional cookie values, leading to unauthorized data access or modification.


3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1635)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling rapidly open and closed HTTP connections. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


4) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1459)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References