Undertow: cookie smuggling/spoofing

7.4 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in Undertow, which incorrectly parses cookies with certain value-delimiting characters in incoming requests. This issue could allow an attacker to construct a cookie value to exfiltrate HttpOnly cookie values or spoof arbitrary additional cookie values, leading to unauthorized data access or modification. The main threat from this flaw impacts data confidentiality and integrity.

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 Ankur Sundara for reporting this issue.

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 1 on RHEL 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7, 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 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9, Migration Toolkit for Applications 6, Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3, Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry, Red Hat build of Quarkus, Red Hat Data Grid 8, Red Hat Decision Manager 7, Red Hat Fuse 7, Red Hat Integration Camel K, Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus, Red Hat Integration Change Data Capture, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6, Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6, Red Hat Process Automation 7, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7

Vulnerable Versions:

1.2-23, 1.2-15, 1.2-16, 1.2-14, 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap, 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, 0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, 0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap