It was discovered that Undertow before 1.4.17, 1.3.31 and 2.0.0 processes http request headers with unusual whitespaces which can cause possible http request smuggling.
CVE-2017-12165
This low-severity CVE scores 2.6 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.9% (78th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 2.6
- EG Score
- 2.6LOWmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 17EG Risk 17/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity26% × 45%Exploitation2% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 1.9%
- EPSS %ILE
- 78th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
July 27, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (20)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0002
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0003
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0004
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0005
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1322
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12165
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0002
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2017-12165(9)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2018:1322Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Fuse/A-MQ 6.3 R7 security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2018:0005Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: eap7-jboss-ec2-eap security update
- RHSA-2018:0004Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.9 security update on RHEL 7
- RHSA-2018:0002Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.9 security update on RHEL 6
- RHSA-2018:0003Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.9 security update
- RHSA-2017:3458Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: eap7-jboss-ec2-eap security update
- RHSA-2017:3455Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 security update
- RHSA-2017:3454Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 security update
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Patch Availability(9)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | patch | 2018-05-03 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-javadocs-0:7.0.9-2.GA_redhat_3.1.ep7.el6 | 2018-01-03 | redhat |
| redhat | undertow | 2018-01-03 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-0:7.0.9-2.GA_redhat_2.ep7.el7 | 2018-01-03 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-javadocs-0:7.0.9-2.GA_redhat_3.1.ep7.el7 | 2018-01-03 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-0:7.1.0-5.GA_redhat_5.ep7.el7 | 2017-12-13 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-xom-0:1.2.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7 | 2017-12-13 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-xom-0:1.2.10-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6 | 2017-12-13 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2017-12-13 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| undertow | 1.3.11-1 ... 1.4.8-1 (25 versions) |
| — |
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| io.undertow:undertow-core | 2.0.0.Alpha1 |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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