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Description

A flaw was found in Undertow, an HTTP server, within its HTTP response header writing path. The `writeString()` method performs a silent narrowing cast from 16-bit Unicode characters to 8-bit bytes when writing HTTP response header values. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying specific Unicode characters in user-controlled input that an application places into response headers. This can lead to the truncation of these characters into ASCII control characters or special symbols, potentially resulting in limited integrity impact or information disclosure if the application does not properly sanitize user input.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 — —
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 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 — —
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 —

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