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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2023-1973

High
7.5/10

Summary

A flaw was found in Undertow package. Using the "FormAuthenticationMechanism", a malicious user could trigger a Denial of Service by sending crafted requests, leading the server to an "OutofMemory" error, exhausting the server's memory. This issue affects packages undertow-servlet and undertow-core in versions prior to 2.2.32.Final, and 2.3.x prior to 2.3.13.Final.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published