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SCA: security update for io.undertow:undertow-core (GHSA-95rf-557x-44g5)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413060

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - When a POST request comes through AJP and the request exceeds the max-post-size limit (maxEntitySize),
 Undertow's AjpServerRequestConduit implementation closes a connection without sending any response to the
 client/proxy. This behavior results in that a front-end proxy marking the backend worker (application
 server) as an error state and not forward requests to the worker for a while. In mod_cluster, this
 continues until the next STATUS request (10 seconds intervals) from the application server updates the
 server state. So, in the worst case, it can result in "All workers are in error state" and mod_cluster
 responds "503 Service Unavailable" for a while (up to 10 seconds). In mod_proxy_balancer, it does not
 forward requests to the worker until the "retry" timeout passes. However, luckily, mod_proxy_balancer has
 "forcerecovery" setting (On by default; this parameter can force the immediate recovery of all workers
 without considering the retry parameter of the workers if all workers of a balancer are in error state.).
 So, unlike mod_cluster, mod_proxy_balancer does not result in responding "503 Service Unavailable". An
 attacker could use this behavior to send a malicious request and trigger server errors, resulting in DoS
 (denial of service). This flaw was fixed in Undertow 2.2.19.Final, Undertow 2.3.0.Alpha2. (CVE-2022-2053)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-95rf-557x-44g5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 413060

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2053

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2053

cwe: CWE-400