Undertow
CVE-2022-2764
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 4.9 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could cause denial of service by exhausting system resources by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A flaw was found in Undertow. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. A flaw was found in Undertow. Denial of service can be achieved as Undertow server waits for the LAST_CHUNK forever for EJB invocations. Affected products include: Redhat Integration Camel K, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Jboss Fuse, Redhat Single Sign-On, Redhat Undertow.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A flaw was found in Undertow. Denial of service can be achieved as Undertow server waits for the LAST_CHUNK forever for EJB invocations.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in JBoss Undertow 1.0.x before 1.0.17, 1.1.x before 1.1.0.CR5, and 1.2.x before 1.2.0.
A file inclusion vulnerability was found in the AJP connector enabled with a default AJP configuration port of 8009 in U
A flaw was found in, all under 2.0.20, in the Undertow DEBUG log for io.undertow.request.security. Rated critical severi
A vulnerability was found in Undertow web server before 2.0.21. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability i
Undertow HTTP server (used in WildFly, JBoss EAP) fails to validate Host headers, enabling cache poisoning, internal net
A flaw was found in all undertow-2.x.x SP1 versions prior to undertow-2.0.30.SP1, all undertow-1.x.x and undertow-2.x.x
Undertow, a Java web server used across Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Fuse, and other middleware prod
A flaw was found in Undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in Undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
A flaw was found in Undertow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
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