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SCA: security update for org.wildfly:wildfly-undertow (GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434208

Description

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

 - Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting
 in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was
 found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to "max-headers" (default 200)
 * "max-header-size" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection. (CVE-2016-9589)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434208

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9589

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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9589

BID: 97060

cwe: CWE-400