Vulnerability · Published May 2, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2024-4029Wildfly: no timeout for eap management interface may lead to denial of service (dos)

Medium 4.1

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in wildfly. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 79.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability was found in Wildfly’s management interface. Due to the lack of limitation of sockets for the management interface, it may be possible to cause a denial of service hitting the nofile limit as there is no possibility to configure or set a maximum number of connections.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavenorg.wildfly:wildfly-domain-httpno fix listedGHSA-x7g6-rwhc-g7mj

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
wildfly 0 – before 24.0.1.Final
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7 see references

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References