Wildfly Mgt Intf DoS via Unbounded Socket Connections
CVE-2024-4029 Published on May 2, 2024
Wildfly: no timeout for eap management interface may lead to denial of service (dos)
A vulnerability was found in Wildflys management interface. Due to the lack of limitation of sockets for the management interface, it may be possible to cause a denial of service hitting the nofile limit as there is no possibility to configure or set a maximum number of connections.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-4029 can be exploited with local system access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public. 10 days later.
Weakness Type
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-4029
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Exploit Probability
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