Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 7.5 CVE-2021-3690 EUVD-2022-6331GHSA-fj7c-vg2v-ccrm

Undertow vulnerable to memory exhaustion due to buffer leak

Published Aug 23, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in Undertow. A buffer leak on the incoming WebSocket PONG message may lead to memory exhaustion. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is availability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— undertow Fixed in 2.2.10.Final, 2.0.40.Final —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 undertow 2.2.10-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 undertow No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS undertow No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 undertow No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS undertow No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS undertow No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS undertow No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS undertow No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS undertow No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-activemq-artemis +15 1.5.5.016-1.redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-artemis-native +1 1:1.5.5.016-1.redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-jboss-xnio-base 3.5.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-jsoup 1.14.2-1.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-undertow 1.4.18-14.SP13_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-wildfly +1 7.1.10-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-woodstox-core 5.0.3-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus 7 eap7-xml-security 2.0.10-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7 RHSA-2025:4226
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-apache-commons-io 2.10.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3658, RHSA-2021:3656, RHSA-2021:3468
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-hal-console 3.2.16-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-hibernate +4 5.3.20-4.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-ironjacamar +8 1.4.35-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-jakarta-el 3.0.3-2.redhat_00006.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3658, RHSA-2021:3656, RHSA-2021:3468
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-jberet +1 1.3.9-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-jboss-remoting 5.0.23-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-jboss-server-migration +21 1.7.2-9.Final_redhat_00010.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-narayana +10 5.9.12-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-netty +1 4.1.63-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2021:3658, RHSA-2021:3656
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-picketbox +1 5.0.3-9.Final_redhat_00008.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-undertow 2.0.38-2.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3658, RHSA-2021:3656, RHSA-2021:3468
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-velocity +1 2.3.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2021:3658, RHSA-2021:3656
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-wildfly +2 7.3.9-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3658, RHSA-2021:3656, RHSA-2021:3468
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-wildfly-elytron +1 1.15.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2021:3658, RHSA-2021:3656
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-wildfly-http-client +4 1.0.29-1.Final_redhat_00002.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-wildfly-java-jdk8 +1 7.3.9-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap RHSA-2021:3656, RHSA-2021:3467
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 eap7-wildfly-transaction-client 1.1.14-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap RHSA-2021:3468, RHSA-2021:3467, RHSA-2021:3466

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.undertow:undertow-core < 2.0.40 2.0.40 GHSA-fj7c-vg2v-ccrm
Maven io.undertow:undertow-core >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.10 2.2.10 GHSA-fj7c-vg2v-ccrm

Advisories 11

References