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: 1.1%, top 22% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. 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
- 2.6(medium)
- EPSS
- 76.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
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 | Fixed in / 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
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| io.undertow:undertow-core | 2.0.0.Alpha1 | 2.0.0.Beta1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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- 2026-05-28 04:36 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-05-23 18:05 UTCOSV refresh
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