CVE-2019-14888 Undertow vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

What is CVE-2019-14888?

CVE-2019-14888 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, published on 23 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was found in the Undertow HTTP server in versions before 2.0.28.SP1 when listening on HTTPS. An attacker can target the HTTPS port to carry out a Denial Of Service (DOS) to make the service unavailable on SSL.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14888?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including io.undertow:undertow-core. It affects 6 products.

Products include Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Redhat Jboss Data Grid, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Jboss Fuse, Redhat Single Sign-On, Redhat Undertow.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14888?

Upgrade io.undertow:undertow-core to 2.0.29.Final or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-14888 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14888 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2021-22931 Code injection in Node Critical 9.8
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All Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14888, GHSA-vjxc-frw4-jmh5, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14888.