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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2021-3629 json

Undertow Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

published 2022-05-24 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rf6q-vx79-mjxr , EUVD-2022-5156

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Undertow. A potential security issue in flow control handling by the browser over http/2 may potentially cause overhead or a denial of service in the server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is availability. This flaw affects Undertow versions prior to 2.0.40.Final and prior to 2.2.11.Final.

Patch / fix

  • maven io.undertow:undertow-core 2.0.40.Final, 2.2.11.Final
  • redhat undertow 2.0.40, 2.2.11
  • redhat wildfly_core 17.0
  • undertow Debian 14 2.2.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3629

  • eap7-jsoup jboss enterprise application platform 7.4, jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 1.14.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap
  • eap7-wss4j jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 2.2.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 7.3.10-2.GA_redhat_00003.1.el8eap
  • eap7-resteasy jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 3.11.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-undertow jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 2.0.41-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-apache-cxf jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 3.3.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jakarta-el jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 3.0.3-3.redhat_00007.1.el8eap
  • eap7-ironjacamar jboss enterprise application platform 7.3 1.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:5151RHSA-2021:5150RHSA-2021:5149RHSA-2021:4677RHSA-2021:4676

Exploit prediction

1.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.undertow:undertow-core
<2.0.40.Final
>=2.1.0, <2.2.11.Final
2.0.40.Final
2.2.11.Final

Affected products

  • n/a undertow

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.