A flaw was found in Undertow. A buffer leak on the incoming WebSocket PONG message may lead to memory exhaustion. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is availability.
CVE-2021-3690
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 49% 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).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 68.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 23, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3690
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991299
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/commit/c7e84a0b7efced38506d7d1dfea5902366973877
- secalert@redhathttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/UNDERTOW-1935
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3690
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991299
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/commit/c7e84a0b7efced38506d7d1dfea5902366973877
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.redhat.com/browse/UNDERTOW-1935
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2021-3690(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(13)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | eap7-xml-security-0:2.0.10-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7 | 2025-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | undertow | 2022-03-23 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-11-23 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-undertow-0:2.2.9-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2021-09-23 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-09-23 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-undertow-0:2.2.9-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2021-09-23 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.14-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2021-09-08 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.14-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap | 2021-09-08 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.14-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2021-09-08 | redhat |
| redhat | patch | 2021-08-18 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-undertow-0:2.0.38-2.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | 2021-08-18 | redhat |
| redhat | io.undertow/undertow-core:2.2.5.Final-redhat-00001 | 2021-08-18 | redhat |
| redhat | eap7-undertow-0:2.2.5-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | 2021-08-18 | 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 | 2.2.0.Final ... 2.2.9.Final (10 versions) | 2.2.10 | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(16)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3216IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3216 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3217IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3217 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3218IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3218 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3219IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3219 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3425IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3425 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3466IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3466 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3467IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3467 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3468IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3468 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3471IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3471 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3516IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3516 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3534IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3534 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3656IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3656 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3658IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3658 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3660IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:3660 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:4767IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2021:4767 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:1029IMPORTANT2021-07-30
RHSA-2022:1029 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
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