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Description

A flaw was found in the ChunkReader component of the Undertow HTTP server, which is used by WildFly and JBoss EAP to handle chunked transfer encoding. The issue occurs because the parser uses a single internal variable to store both the remaining chunk size and state flags. By sending a specially crafted request with an extremely large chunk size, an attacker can cause these values to overlap, tricking the parser into thinking a request has finished prematurely. This can allow a second, "smuggled" request to be processed out of sync, potentially bypassing security controls.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.8.GA — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 10 — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Data Grid 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Fuse 7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack — —
Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 — —

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 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 undertow No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 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 EAP 8 eap8-activemq-artemis +14 2.40.0-8.redhat_00024.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-apache-cxf +3 4.1.7-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-artemis-wildfly-integration 2.0.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-bouncycastle +5 1.85.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-cryptacular 1.2.7-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-eap-product-conf-parent +1 801.8.0-1.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-hibernate +2 6.6.54-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-httpcomponents-asyncclient 4.1.5-5.redhat_00008.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-ironjacamar +8 3.0.22-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jackson-core +12 2.18.9-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jakarta-xml-bind-api 4.0.5-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jaxb +9 4.0.7-4.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jaxbintros 2.1.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jboss-logging 3.6.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jboss-remoting 5.0.31-1.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jbossws-api 3.1.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jbossws-common-tools 2.2.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jbossws-cxf 7.4.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jbossws-jaxws-undertow-httpspi 3.0.1-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jbossws-spi 5.1.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jsf-impl 4.0.11-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-log4j 2.25.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-neethi 3.2.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-netty +14 4.1.136-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-nimbus-jose-jwt 9.37.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-parsson 1.1.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-saaj-impl +1 3.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-slf4j +1 2.0.18-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-undertow 2.3.26-2.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly +3 8.1.8-9.GA_redhat_00006.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-elytron +1 2.6.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-javadocs 8.1.1-12.GA_redhat_00048.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-ws-commons-XmlSchema 2.3.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:70230, RHSA-2026:70229, RHSA-2026:70228

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