A flaw was found in Undertow. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to construct specially crafted requests where header names are parsed differently by Undertow compared to upstream proxies. This discrepancy in header interpretation can be exploited to launch request smuggling attacks, potentially bypassing security controls and accessing unauthorized resources.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:25125 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly     application runtime.

    This asynchronous patch is an update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1. See Release     Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

    Security Fix(es):

    * jetty-server: Eclipse Jetty: Denial of Service due to unreleased JDK Inflater from compressed HTTP     requests important (CVE-2026-1605)

    * undertow-core: Undertow: Request Smuggling via Malformed HTTP Request Headers (CVE-2026-28369)

    * undertow-core: Undertow: Request smuggling via inconsistent header parsing (CVE-2026-28368)

    * undertow-core: Undertow: Request smuggling via `\r\r\r` as a header block terminator (CVE-2026-28367)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in Undertow. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to construct specially crafted     requests where header names are parsed differently by Undertow compared to upstream proxies. This     discrepancy in header interpretation can be exploited to launch request smuggling attacks, potentially     bypassing security controls and accessing unauthorized resources. (CVE-2026-28368)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
320509	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.6 (RHSA-2026:25125)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
304101	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-28368	Nessus	Misc.	Local	critical

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