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Advisory severityMedium4.1Vendor: LowRed Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2024-4029] Wildfly: no timeout for eap management interface may lead to denial of service (dos)

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-4029 affecting Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7.

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CVE-2024-4029
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxUnclassified
Open source advisory

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Summary

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.

Red Hat rates this as a Low impact since this requires high privileges to jeopardize the system. The management interface is normally internal/local only and not exposed externally.

Red Hat severity: Low — CVSS 4.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-770.

Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 for RHEL 9; Red Hat Fuse 7; Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7; Red Hat Process Automation 7; Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.

Red Hat lists Red Hat Build of Keycloak; Red Hat Data Grid 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack as not affected. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Fuse 7; Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7; Red Hat Process Automation 7.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 22 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • org.wildfly.core/wildfly-domain-http-interface:15.0.39.Final-redhat-00001
  • eap7-hal-console-0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-hibernate-validator-0:6.0.23-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-insights-java-client-0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-ironjacamar-0:1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jboss-cert-helper-0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.55-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.10.0-39.Final_redhat_00039.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jbossws-cxf-0:5.4.12-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jsoup-0:1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap
  • eap7-undertow-jastow-0:2.0.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eap
  • eap7-xalan-j2-0:2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el8eap
  • eap7-hal-console-0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-hibernate-validator-0:6.0.23-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-insights-java-client-0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-ironjacamar-0:1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-jboss-cert-helper-0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.55-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.10.0-39.Final_redhat_00039.1.el9eap
  • eap7-jbossws-cxf-0:5.4.12-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-jsoup-0:1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el9eap
  • eap7-undertow-jastow-0:2.0.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
  • eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el9eap
  • eap7-xalan-j2-0:2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el9eap
  • eap7-hal-console-0:3.3.24-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-hibernate-validator-0:6.0.23-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-insights-java-client-0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-ironjacamar-0:1.5.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-jboss-cert-helper-0:1.1.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.55-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.10.0-39.Final_redhat_00039.1.el7eap
  • eap7-jbossws-cxf-0:5.4.12-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-jsoup-0:1.15.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap
  • eap7-undertow-jastow-0:2.0.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
  • eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.19-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap
  • eap7-xalan-j2-0:2.7.1-37.redhat_00015.1.el7eap
  • wildfly-domain-http
  • eap8-activemq-artemis-0:2.33.0-1.redhat_00015.1.el8eap
  • eap8-activemq-artemis-native-1:2.0.0-2.redhat_00005.1.el8eap
  • RHSA-2024:8080
  • RHSA-2024:8076
  • RHSA-2024:8077
  • RHSA-2024:8075
  • RHSA-2024:8826
  • RHSA-2024:8823
  • RHSA-2024:8824

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 22 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • Currently there is no available mitigation for this vulnerability. Please make sure to perform updates as they become available.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 22 days ago·verify at source

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