Security advisory

{
  "id": "0899c6ece5e9ea6b321db857b771a692b983697ced70166d1fd9b7bb988e80b6",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9589",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-9589",
    "summary": "Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to \"max-headers\" (default 200) * \"max-header-size\" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-9589",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-9589",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-9589",
        "GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "c3332cec0c9bc5dc57899c2ae7ba26dd0c627686"
                },
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                  "introduced": "1299aae21ee19d2dc2f174b09b3d74e4faec7f9b"
                },
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                  "last_affected": "1299aae21ee19d2dc2f174b09b3d74e4faec7f9b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "10.1.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_wildfly_application_server:11.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "11.0.0-alpha1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "11.0.0-alpha1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "11.0.0-alpha1",
            "11.0.0.Alpha1",
            "10.1.0.Final",
            "10.1.0.CR1",
            "10.0.0.Final",
            "10.0.0.CR5",
            "10.0.0.CR4",
            "10.0.0.CR3",
            "10.0.0.CR2",
            "10.0.0.CR1",
            "10.0.0.Beta2",
            "10.0.0.Beta1",
            "10.0.0.Alpha6",
            "10.0.0.Alpha5",
            "10.0.0.Alpha4",
            "10.0.0.Alpha3",
            "10.0.0.Alpha2",
            "10.0.0.Alpha1",
            "9.0.0.CR1",
            "9.0.0.Beta2",
            "9.0.0.Beta1",
            "8.1.0.CR2",
            "8.1.0.CR1",
            "8.0.0.Final",
            "8.0.0.CR1",
            "8.0.0.Beta1",
            "8.0.0.Alpha4",
            "8.0.0.Alpha3",
            "8.0.0.Alpha2",
            "8.0.0.Alpha1",
            "7.2.0.Final-prerelease1",
            "7.2.0.Final",
            "7.1.2.Final",
            "7.1.2-prerelease",
            "7.1.1.Final",
            "7.1.0.Final",
            "7.1.0.Final-prerelease2",
            "7.1.0.Final-prerelease",
            "7.1.0.CR1",
            "7.1.0.Beta1",
            "7.1.0.Alpha1",
            "7.0.0.Final",
            "7.0.0.Final-prerelease3",
            "7.0.0.Final-prerelease2",
            "7.0.0.Final-prerelease",
            "7.0.0.CR1",
            "7.0.0.Beta3",
            "7.0.0.Beta2",
            "7.0.0.Beta2-prerelease",
            "7.0.0.Beta1-prerelease",
            "7.0.0.Alpha1-final",
            "7.0.0.Alpha1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9589.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.439629897Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-9589",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430685,
  "published_at": "2018-03-12T15:29:00.273+00:00"
}