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CVE-2023-1973 (GCVE-0-2023-1973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-07 10:01 – Updated: 2024-11-07 14:06

Title

Undertow: unrestricted request storage leads to memory exhaustion

Summary

A flaw was found in Undertow package. Using the FormAuthenticationMechanism, a malicious user could trigger a Denial of Service by sending crafted requests, leading the server to an OutofMemory error, exhausting the server's memory.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-07 14:06 UTC

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1674	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1675	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1676	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1677	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2763	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1973	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185662	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

7 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7	cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.4
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8	Unaffected: 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.4::el8
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9	Unaffected: 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.4::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7	Unaffected: 0:2.2.30-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.4::el7
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8	cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:8.0
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8	Unaffected: 0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:8.0::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:8.0::el8
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9	Unaffected: 0:2.3.11-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:8.0::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:8.0::el8

Date Public

2024-04-04 00:00

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RHSA-2024_1674

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-04-04 15:23 - Updated: 2024-12-17 22:38

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.16 Security update

Severity

Important

Scope

5 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 2 products Known not affected: 83 products

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RHSA-2024_1675

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-04-04 15:23 - Updated: 2024-12-17 22:38

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.16 Security update

Severity

Important

Scope

5 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 2 products Known not affected: 84 products

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RHSA-2024_1676

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-04-04 15:23 - Updated: 2024-12-17 22:38

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.16 Security update

Severity

Important

Scope

5 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 2 products Known not affected: 81 products

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1676

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RHSA-2024_1677

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-04-04 15:22 - Updated: 2024-12-17 22:38

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.16 Security update

Severity

Important

Scope

5 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 1 product

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1677

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RHSA-2024_2763

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-05-08 14:17 - Updated: 2024-11-23 03:35

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 security update

Severity

Important

Scope

3 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 1 product

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2763

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RHSA-2024_2764

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-05-08 14:25 - Updated: 2024-11-23 03:34

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 security update

Severity

Important

Scope

3 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 4 products

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2764

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RHSA-2025:4226

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2025-04-28 00:20 - Updated: 2026-09-11 23:24

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.10 on RHEL 7 security update

Severity

Important

Scope

17 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 34 products

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4226

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RHSA-2025:9583

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2025-06-25 00:16 - Updated: 2026-08-25 09:28

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.14 Security update

Severity

Important

Scope

14 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Fixed: 53 products

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9583

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ubuntu-cve-2023-1973

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-11-07 10:15

Modified

2026-05-20 15:01

Summary

Details

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1973	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185662	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1973	REPORT

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WID-SEC-W-2024-1084

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2024-05-09 22:00 - Updated: 2025-06-24 22:00

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Severity

Mittel

Scope

3 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-1973.

CVE-2023-1973

Known affected: 3 products

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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CVE-2023-1973 (GCVE-0-2023-1973)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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