CVE-2024-4029 Wildfly: no timeout for eap management interface may lead to denial of service (dos)
Attackers can exhaust file descriptors on the Wildfly management interface, causing a denial of service due to missing connection limits.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-4029?
CVE-2024-4029 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Red Hat Build of Keycloak, published on 2 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability was found in Wildfly’s 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.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4029?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-http.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-http Maven | All versions to 24.0.0.Final | None |
org.wildfly:wildfly-domain-http Maven | All versions to 24.0.0.Final | None |
How do I fix CVE-2024-4029?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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-2024-4029 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4029 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x7g6-rwhc-g7mj.