Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Undertow

Also known as GHSA-gjjx-gqm4-wcgm

Published 8 y ago 2018-09-11 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

6.5

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.3%

percentile 84%

Public exploits

none known

It was found that URLResource.getLastModified() in Undertow closes the file descriptors only when they are finalized which can cause file descriptors to exhaust. This leads to a file handler leak.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.33% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
CNA	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	4.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P`
GitHub	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
maven	`io.undertow:undertow-core`	<1.4.25.Final >=2.0.0.Alpha1, <2.0.5.Final	1.4.25.Final 2.0.5.Final

Affected products

Red Hat undertow

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1114 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2669 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2643 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
issues.jboss.org /browse/UNDERTOW-1338 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
bugs.openjdk.java.net /browse/JDK-6956385 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2019:0877 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1114 · advisory

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2018-1114
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-gjjx-gqm4-wcgm
NVD: CVE-2018-1114

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Summary