CVE-2023-3223 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-3223

Undertow: outofmemoryerror due to @multipartconfig handling

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in undertow. Servlets annotated with @MultipartConfig may cause an OutOfMemoryError due to large multipart content. This may allow unauthorized users to cause remote Denial of Service (DoS) attack. If the server uses fileSizeThreshold to limit the file size, it's possible to bypass the limit by setting the file name in the request to null.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank Keke Lian & Haoran Zhao (SecSys Lab) for reporting this issue.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Red Hat Fuse 7.12.1, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9, RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers, Red Hat build of Quarkus, Red Hat Data Grid 8, Red Hat Decision Manager 7, Red Hat Integration Camel K, Red Hat Integration Service Registry, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack, Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) Operational Tools, Red Hat Process Automation 7, Red Hat support for Spring Boot
Vulnerable Versions:
0:2.2.25-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 0:2.2.25-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el9eap, 0:2.2.25-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 0:18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, 0:18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso, 0:18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso, 7.6-27

Timeline

Official Publish: September 27th, 2023
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-789

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.