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SCA: security update for io.undertow:undertow-core (GHSA-6h4f-pj3g-q8fq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436889

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in Undertow that can cause remote denial of service attacks. When the server uses the
 FormEncodedDataDefinition.doParse(StreamSourceChannel) method to parse large form data encoding with
 application/x-www-form-urlencoded, the method will cause an OutOfMemory issue. This flaw allows
 unauthorized users to cause a remote denial of service (DoS) attack. (CVE-2024-3884)

Solution

Update the io.undertow:undertow-core library and its related packages to version 2.2.39.Final or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6h4f-pj3g-q8fq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436889

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/22/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.74

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-2024-3884

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: 12/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3884

cwe: CWE-20